Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

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.

I know you have it in you, Guy, " Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.

I want you alone, " he whispered, gliding a hand around her hip, "on a slow boat to China. Days together, nights... rocking on the waves.

I'm just like the tree... strong-looking but slowly dying.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

I don't even know my own phone number.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.