Tom Shadyac Quotes

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

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

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

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

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

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

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Technological advances have brought our nation to a point where momentous public choices are inescapable.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

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.

Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

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.

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

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.