I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

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.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Love is a feeling which you can't change but its change you, Beloved is a person whom you can't replace with anyone but you replace your wishes with his or her wishes

When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

The best things arrive on time.

For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.