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I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' -- Linus Torvalds
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. -- William Gibson
Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used. -- Rick Smolan
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. -- Dennis Gabor
I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature. -- Richard Preston
It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question of how digital technology can be structured, governed, and used to maximize the good and minimize the evil. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good. -- Robert Winston
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. -- Bram Cohen
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology. -- Geoffrey Hinton
The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that. -- Richard Dawkins

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