David Sarnoff Quotes

Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

We change our tools and then our tools change us.

I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

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