We are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...
On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car of his pe...
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
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 cycle....
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been...
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions a...
Hope is a waking dream.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.