Quotes about Threat

Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

Counseling that attempts to logically teach new truth without concern for the emotional threat involved in changing one's approach to meeting personal needs will plow headlong into resistance.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

All supposed exterior signs of danger that a bull gives, such as pawing the ground, threatening with his horns, or bellowing are forms of bluffing. They are warnings given in order that combat may be avoided if possible. The truly brave bull gives no warning before he charges except the fixing of his eye on the enemy, the raising of the crest of muscle in his neck, the twitching of an ear, and, as he charges, the lifting of his tail.

I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.

No one launches a large-scale, systematic assault against something that's not considered a threat.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.