Desirable Outcomes Quotes

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something's possible it doesn't mean it's going to be good to us.

We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.