# Quote — Jack Mcdevitt, Cauldron

> “Technology is dangerous.”
>
> “How do you mean?”
>
> “It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.”

- Author: [Jack Mcdevitt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt.md)
- Book: [Cauldron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron.md)
- Page: 242
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_McDevitt#Cauldron_(2007)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/technology-is-dangerous

## More from this book

> He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

p. 322 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/he-was-usually.md)

> “It’s all PR,” said Hutchins. “If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.”

p. 127 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/its-all-pr-said.md)

> Technological civilizations don’t last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

p. 248 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/technological-civilizations-dont.md)