I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.-RVM

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.