People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented didn't they? People feared coal they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance and ignorance leads to fear. But with time people will come to accept their silicon masters.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life I frequently precipitated what I feared most the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.