After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

Good at something necessarily doesn't means you are bad at all the other things

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

I’ll go and help. (Chris) What are we supposed to do with you, Chris? Lob you at them? (Wulf)

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.