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“It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.”

People Design Duty Machines Meaningless Arbitrary

Book:The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

Source: The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

“If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.”

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.”

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”

Firsts Wells Kind Two Design Building Duty Goodness Architecture Practicals Individualism Architecture And Design

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.”

Country Literature Pay Attention Design Duty Expected Tone Dictatorship Harmonious Exhibits Free Country

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”