Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

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.

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 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.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Life doesn't get much better than this.

Say no to being on-call 24/7 unless you are an emergency responder. Use a speakerphone, use a headset.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.