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"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact."

"A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out me."

"In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction."

"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

"Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps."

"As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families."
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"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."


"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"


"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."


"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."


"I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them."


"Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal."


"Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity."


"The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether."


"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."
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