If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far... enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminatingly murderous. A bad cause can become good if en...ough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original i...deas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? ...A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »