As a society we are schizophrenic about machines. On one hand, altough perhaps with an increasingly jaundiced eye, we still believe in the inevitability of progress. On the other hand, we control every advance by conforming it so that it "fits" to pre-existing social patterns. The same authorities and institutions, the same capital, the same research effort which created today's world is also trying to create tomorrow's.
Brian Winston
Para que as companhias de seguros sejam rentáveis do ponto de vista económico, todos - pessoas privadas, empresas - terão de aceitar que a sua conformidade às normas seja vigiada por terceiros; para isso, todos terão de aceitar ser vigiados.
Jacques Attali
"Tis a deception! granted, but such a one as does honour to human nature; a deception more beautiful, more surprising, more astonishing, than any to be met with in the different accounts of mathematical recreations.
Karl Gottlieb von Windisch
