Michael Scott Quotes

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

Tampering with humanity is pretty scary.

I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you again.' Rose shook her head at him. 'How can you even taste your tea if you put that much sugar in it?' Don't change the subject. I don't want to be responsible for depriving the world of Rose Brier. Under no circumstances are you allowed to help us do anything more dangerous than...change the oil in my car.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Liberty is dangerous.

We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Count the deed, not the thought.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

To copy is to invite disaster.

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.