I would have loved to talk to this person. I was particularly struck by this comment: Finally the machines will do what we ask them to do and not what we ought to ask them to do. In the discussion of the relation between man and powerful agencies controlled by man, the gnomic wisdom of the folk tales has a value far beyond the books of our sociologists.

So often in debugging I see that machine doing exactly what I programmed it to do and not what I meant it to do. As we build things with greater influence in the world such bugs go from being "oopsies" to ones that do a lot of harm either economic, human, or both.