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

—  Jack McDevitt

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 26 (p. 242)

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