Barack Obama Quotes

Mr. President. You have not only put us in harm’s way. You have harmed us.

What you don't know can hurt you.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

I do think... gene technology has got real benefits to offer, which will have maybe an occasional downside, but I suspect not very many.

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.

Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

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

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

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

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

We believe that talented people with bad values can do far more damage than virtuous people with lesser talents.

All it takes is one punch, one big punch, and that could wreck everything for me.

It's O.K. if you've got a smartphone app or a social network, and you go live with it before it's ready; people aren't going to die. But with medicine, it's different.

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.

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

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them