If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

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.

All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Making a mistake is also an achievement.