I want them to have heard me affirm that the computer
is a powerful new metaphor for helping us to understand
many aspects of the world but that it enslaves the mind
that has no other metaphors and few resources to call on.
The world is many things, and no single framework is
large enough to contain them all, neither that of man's
science nor that of his poetry, neither that of
calculating reason nor that of pure intuition. And just
as love of music does not suffice to enable one to play the
violin-- one must also master the craft of the instrument
and of music itself--so is it not enough to love humanity
in order to help it survive. The teacher's calling to teach
his craft is therefore an honorable one. But he must do more
than that: he must teach more than one metaphor, and
he must teach more by the example of his conduct than
by what he writes on the blackboard. He must teach
the limitations of his tools as well as their power.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, p.277, W.H.Freeman and Co. 1974
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