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?

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

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.

Be fearless in releasing the productivity of your time

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

You must come again when you have less time.