There is light in the world, and it is us!

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 threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

I can make the stars dance

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.

Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.