Dollars to donuts
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
Action produces information. If you're unsure what to do just do anything.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
This collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish.
While the attention of the world is riveted on dishonest debates and wayward personalities, the meanderings of megapolitics continue almost unnoted. The average North American has probably lavished one hundred times more attention on O. J. Simpson than he has on the new microtechnologies that are poised to antiquate his job and subvert the political system he depends on for unemployment compensation.
The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
If you wanna get something really important done, give it to a busy person
Know one thing about everything and know everything in one thing
Be impatient for action but patient for outcomes
History is defined by those who defy probability
Don't straw man people's arguments. Strong man them and then argue against the strongest pieces of their arguments.