It's all PR," said Hutchins. "If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead. - Jack McDevitt

Technology is dangerous."
"How do you mean?"
"It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

Truth is like nudity: It is on occasion indispensable, but it is dangerous and should not be displayed openly. It is truth that gives life its grandeur, but the polite fictions that make it bearable.

Come on, Harold. People like us can always find experts to tell us what we want to hear. It’s the biggest problem we have. Everybody lies to us because they want things from us.