Technology Abuse Quotes

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Technology is a force multiplier for evil.

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

When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.

Blockchain is like the new big data or AI - too many people are using it as a buzzword and not focused solving a real problem. We like to call them Blockchain tourists!

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

Technology favors horrible people.

Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

I would never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

I always tell people what I did 50 years ago as a teenager is now 4,000 times easier to do today than when I did it. Technology breeds crime - it always has and it always will. There's always going to be people willing to use technology in a negative, self-serving way. So today it's much easier, whether it's forging checks or getting information. People go on Facebook and tell you what car they drive, their mother's name, where you are going on vacation, where you've been on vacation. There's nothing you can't research in a matter of a couple of minutes and find out about someone.

The problem is that the same technological tools we use to thwart terrorists can also be used against the people whose job it is to stop them.

As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.

People talk about drones like they're a bad thing, but they forget there are people behind them. It's a lot easier to blame the technology than to accept that people are a cancer on this planet.