Instrumental Value Quotes

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value can be measured in cash terms; and that what can't be measured does not matter, have proved lethal to the rest of life on Earth.

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

People are fungible. You can have them here or there.

I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.