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Human values don’t exist in isolation, It’s not like there’s privacy over here, and trust over there, and security there.

— Batya Friedman

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I wanted to do my work from within computing. I wanted to do it as an insider, not as an outside critic, to provide leadership for the field.

At the time, if you did any search on values and computing or anything related to that, you would come up with nothing. It just was not on people’s radars

Maybe there are things in 20 or 50 years that you’re going to want to know about the present, so you need to collect them now, The people who start the work are not going to be the people who finish the work.

My scholarly and technical work is about creating the conditions to make the world a better place — a place for human flourishing and for a flourishing planet, My art is about beauty and form — in effect, creating the peace that I hope we will all experience when we arrive there.

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