- Ted: Modern technology is the worst thing to happen to the world. And to promote its progress is nothing short of criminal.
- Ted: As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex, and as machine become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them. Simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep this system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People wont be able to just turn the machines off because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off will amount to suicide.
- Ted: We attribute the social and psychological problems with modern society to the fact that the society requires people to live under conditions radically different from those under which the human race evolved.
- Ted: People say violence and the taking of human life is not a way to resolve to human problems. Can't work. As a matter of fact, history shows that it very often does work.
- Ted: ...most people will probably be repelled by my crime. The opponents of freedom may use it as a weapon to support their arguments for control over human behaviour.