Alfonso Cuaron 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.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

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

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.