Quote by Freeman Dyson
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. – Freeman Dyson

Other quotes by Freeman Dyson

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. – Freeman Dyson

Category:
Future
Read Quote

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. – Freeman Dyson

Category:
Government
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Toys
category

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. – Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Category:
Toys

Toys are the greatest inspiration for me. People never really grow up. They just get bigger adult bodies. And they really want to continue to play. My inspiration comes from the work of many, many anonymous folk artists. – Doug Taylor

Category:
Toys

Random Quotes

I didnt have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius. – Christopher Durang

Category:
teacher

Faith is never identical with piety. – Karl Barth

Category:
Religion

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Wisdom

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. – Irish Blessing

Category:
Goodbye