I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

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.

Last month, I didn't even have the prospect of a relationship. Now I've got one cowboy too many, " she said.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.