It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. Bruce Schneier
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. Paul Krugman
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates. Ray Kurzweil
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. Freeman Dyson
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share. Trip Hawkins
In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required. Ray Bradbury