Human nature is a work in progress.

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.

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.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

Why is it so many politicians are wealthy?Is it because they make good investments?Or is it simply.Because they are good investments?

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

If we always livein constant fearthen we might missthe beauty of the momentright now, right here.

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life