Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

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?

We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.

Human nature is a work in progress.

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.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

Maybe he was dangerous, but for some reason, she trusted him.

What is the secret of life?’ I asked.‘I forget, ’ said Sandra.‘Protein, ’ the bartender declared. ‘They found something out about protein.‘‘Yeah, ’ said Sandra, ‘that’s it.

Trails need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.