“The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.”

“Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will h...”

“Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences”

“If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.”

“The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.”

“The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.”

“When artificial intelligence comes of age, the first thing it's going to do is get rid of the inefficient parts.And guess who that will be!And what will happen to us?Well, to find out the answer to...”

“The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycl...”

“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.”

“The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their, primary disruption o...”

“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our ...”

“Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...”