If you abuse it and use it in an unnatural way then it will hurt your site.

If you use it naturally, it would not be a problem.

Anchor text helps to determine the ranking that the page will receive by search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. Links without anchor texts are called
naked URLs, or URL anchor texts. Different browsers will display anchor texts differently and proper use of anchor text can help the page linked to rank for
those keywords in search engines.

Anchor text Links are helpful for Good ranking to higher your website on search engines. But linking to exact keyword as anchor text is Not good for optimization.

anchor text is good...........

These recent updates by Panda and Penguin, anchor texts should be used with cautions. Using a lot of exact match keywords as anchor texts could lead your site to get penalized by Google.

Anchor text should be relevent to the content of the website.

They are the best. You need variety of anchor text words. Also you need to back link to the main directories and to the taps off of it

Anchor text links are very good for improvement of keyword ranking in google.

Anchor text link is somewhat more good for seo strategies. So you may requested to do it so...

Exact match anchor text links are targetd by Google. So, instead of using exact match anchor text, use similar...

Anchor text links are very useful in getting website ranking. It will help you out in increasing keyword position.

There has been a great deal of debate about what kind of anchor text is best, and what kind can actually hurt your back link profile.

It is very useful for SEO.

Through this your website will be recognized through your keywords. Have multiple keywords for your website and don't do over SEO on single anchor text as it will leads to penalization of your website.

Who said these are no good for SEO? These are not good when you have wrong anchor text or you are doing spamming.