Señor, concédeme serenidad para aceptar todo aquello que no puedo cambiar, valor para cambiar lo que soy capaz de cambiar y sabiduría para entender la diferencia.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.

Campbell's Law. Donald T. Campbell,

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

-- Konrad Zuse

Helena: Will they be happier when they can feel pain?

Dr. Gall: On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect.

Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (Rossum’s universal Robots).

Toda realidad ignorada prepara su venganza

Ortega y Gasset. 'La rebelión de las masas'

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

William Bruce Cameron (erróneamente atribuida a Albert Einstein)

Technological tools tested on the poor will eventually be used on everyone.

Dorothy Allen. Citada en Eubanks, Virginia: Automating Inequality

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian W. Kernighan

Compañera

usted sabe

que puede contar

conmigo

no hasta dos

o hasta diez

sino contar

conmigo

si alguna vez

advierte

que la miro a los ojos

y una veta de amor

reconoce en los míos

no alerte sus fusiles

ni piense qué delirio

a pesar de la veta

o tal …

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you …