Frank Herbert Quotes

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

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

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

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

Blockchain's a very interesting technology that will have some very profound applications for society over the years to come.

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

I love humanity but I hate people.

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.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

We need a science to save us from science.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.

That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.