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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Find a problem so big that you can spend at least 10 years of your life on, but that you can also demonstrate incremental progress towards.

There are three things that I think are important:
Truth, curiosity, and beauty.

If AI cares about those three things, it will care about us.

Civilization progresses not due to humans’ hard work, but because of their laziness.

a healthy society is one where the growth in the number of players exceeds the growth in the number of referees

Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

When you are on the right path, invisible hands will come to your aid.

Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that is is not.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable

"Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Ben Franklin

To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live.

Good luck will be the residue of good design.

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

Artificial intelligence is a concept that obscures accountability. Our problem is not machines acting like humans -- it’s humans acting like machines.

Innovation is impossible for people who need guarantees.

Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

It’s not what you know, it’s what you can learn—and who you can get to know.

You can't have a better tomorrow, if you keep thinking about yesterday.

If you're hungry but too lazy to prepare healthy food, you'll consume junk food. If you're hungry for knowledge but too lazy to seek out the truth, you'll consume misinformation.

Men don't begin to live fully until their backs are against the wall.

Somewhere between unlikely and impossible is where magic happens.

The biggest breakthroughs will come when we have the courage to build less, with greater intent.

To succeed, get other people to pay you; to become wealthy, help other people to succeed.