La técnica ofrecería menos peligros si su manipuleo no le fuese tan fácil al imbécil y tan rentable al caco. (p. 179)

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Technology is potential freedom from brutality.

The more he didn’t know, she reasoned, the easier he would be to fool.

At one time an individual could fix everything in his life with his thumb nail or his teeth. ...I believe the ground rules can be transformed so that technology simplifies life instead of continually complicating it.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

The anger of imbeciles is less frightening than their benevolence.

I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.

A common thief with a gun in his hand isn’t half as dangerous as an engineer with a stick of dynamite.

The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier.

It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man (sic) who has so much as to be out of danger?