Larry Niven Quotes

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

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

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Warfare evolves. It changes as a result of technology. It changes as the culture changes.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.