Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

Are you living in a computer simulation?

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.

Human nature is a work in progress.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

Nothing Is Unusual (NIU).

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

God will make a way, where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.