These two friends care deeply about the state of ethical conduct in the frenzied money- and power-fueled world of high technology. A co-founder of Apple Computer, Markkula provided the first $1.5 million in seed money for an ethics center at Santa Clara University in 1986 because he feared Silicon Valley was developing a generation of ‘‘ethical agnostics.’’ It operates off his endowments and carries his name: The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. As executive director from 1992 to 1999, Shanks elevated the center into the region’s philosophical standard-bearer for teaching the value of ethical conduct–not only in high technology, but also in the health industry, government, banking, public service and other disciplines.