Andrew Grove Quotes

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

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.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

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

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

This is a matter far too important to be left solely in the hands of the scientific and medical communities. The belief that surrogate mothers and clonal babies are inevitable because science always moves forward, an attitude expressed to me recently by a scientific colleague, represents a form of laissez-faire nonsense dismally reminiscent of the creed that American business, if left to itself, will solve everybody's problems. Just as the success of a corporate body in making money need not set the human condition ahead, neither does every scientific advance automatically make our lives more 'meaningful.' No doubt the person whose experimental skill will eventually bring forth a clonal baby will be given wide notoriety. But the child who grows up knowing that the world wants another Picasso may view his creator in a different light.

We talk a lot about building benevolent technology. Our technology reflects our values.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

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.

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

Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.