Freeman Dyson Quotes

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

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.

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

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

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

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

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

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

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.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

One lesson of history is that moral force counts.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

I became an engineer because I believe in the power of technology to enrich our lives.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

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.