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.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.
Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.
[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.
That's the thing with social media: it's a gift and a curse. It's cool on one level, but it's also bad.
I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
Torture can be a two edged sword.
Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness.
Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
I can be glib and truthful all at once.
Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.
Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.
I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!
Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.
