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.

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.

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.

Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Style is what one creates....glamou r is a state of mind.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.