“I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It'...” — William Gibson Quote

“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.”

“I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.”

“I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.”

“Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.”

“Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.”

“We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.”