Charles Percy Snow Quotes

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

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

What we believe at Founders Fund is that technology is a way to help everybody on the planet.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

The liberating force of scientific knowledge is objectively expressed in the great achievements of technology. Whoever possesses technology has power of the earth and men. As a result of this, hitherto unknown forms of inequality have arisen between those who possess knowledge and those who are simple users of technology.

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted

We do not ride upon the railroad. It rides upon us.

We are much better at creating complex technologies than we are at controlling them.

I think it's amazing when technology is used in a smart way, but the responsibility that comes with it... I think there's a lot of technology that we're using that we haven't thought through. It's a bit scary to put all your trust in technology and to think that that's what going to save us. We're going to have to make some compromises.

I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.

We should be focused on how to make people's lives better. That is the purpose of technology.

I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

I believe engineers will save the world.

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

Don't let technology dictate your life.