"Computer science is the best instrument of history to release man's creativity... Half a million Indians now earn $40,000 developing programs for U.S. businesses, a success that is possible thanks to computers."
-Microsoft founder Bill Gates
"Work is not an end in itself. Material production cannot be infinite; we must be concerned about the one who makes the products that we acquire at a low price."
-Cardinal Van Thuan, director of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
This appears in the May-June 2001 issue of Sojourners
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