There are some problems that technology can't solve.

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.

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.