If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

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.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

There aren't enough cookies in the world to make you feel loved and whole.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.