Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.
Interpretation
Technology and science hold potential risks, but the responsibility lies in how they are utilized by people.
In this quote, Steve Martin emphasizes that while technology and science come with inherent risks and challenges, the true issue lies not in the tools themselves but in the human choices surrounding their use. It highlights the importance of responsibility and ethics in the application of technology, reinforcing that accountability cannot be shifted solely to the innovations we create.
In practice
In a seminar discussing the impact of technology on society, this quote can remind participants of the importance of responsible usage.
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
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