K. Eric Drexler Quotes

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Fame, you know, it's like a handgun - in the wrong hands, it's dangerous.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

With every technology, there will be misuses of it.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

We need a science to save us from science.

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.