Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

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.

War is a horribly fascinating thing.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.

The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.

People like to own things.

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.