Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

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.

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.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

I'm not a stranger, " I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

In my experience I've learned women are better streakers.