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.

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.

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 see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

If you want to be prosperous, then you will have to become a seeker

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

The second time around I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.