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

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.

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.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you.

And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

God has still a land covenant with Israel.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.