"Isn't that just the question? Having built something significantly smarter than myself, how could I possibly anticipate its evolution?"

"When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive."

"Vengeance doesn't relieve you of pain like you think it should. Instead it twists your heart with bitterness."

"Sounding confident about a thing doesn't make it true."

"Humanty had gone to the stars. That hadn't eradicated poverty, overpopulation and sloth."

"The odds of there being at least one form of intellegent life outside Earth somewhere in the observable universe, are higher than your odds of winning the lottery."

"In science, we want to get the same results many times, in order to believe them."

"You have to know what skeletons are in peoples closets before you can use them against them "

"Bibles have a bad effect on weak-minded people. And churches act like echo chambers on psychotics."

"We find out the truth because we don't have any choice. Nothing else works, empirically"

"So he would be forced to survive. Because this hypocritical society insisted at this level that life was sacred."

"The absence of noise and people seemed less unnerving out in the countryside."

"It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident or doing it by design."

Comment on the likelihood of an accidental nuclear weapons launch.

"The people who scared people always won. They always win."

"Life you may evade, but death you shall not."

"I like your Christ. It's your Christians that I find difficult."

"What if the cost of machines that think is people who don't?"

"It does not matter where one starts, it is where one finishes that makes all the difference."

"They say you shouldn't shoot the messenger, but no one warns you how much you'll want to."

"It is a provable fact that one can not insult intelligence where intelligence is not known to exist."

"Ridicule is the appropriate response to the ridiculous."

"You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular."

New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman said of prostitution back in the days of Storyville.

"The saying that god created man in his own image is half right, they just got the order of who created who backwards."

"You will find that having is not so pleasant a thing as wanting"

"You don't know this 'cause you're too young but politicians run all the big scams. Government's the thief of all time. That's why it tries so hard to catch thieves -- it doesn't like the competition."

"That's who wins, who hates most. And is more afraid. Every time."

"Ignorance is a failure to think deeply. It is a failure to be inquisitive. It is a failure to keep an open mind."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"When cure is possible, is it necessary, and when cure is necessary, is it possible?"

"Sooner or later, nature will look you in the eye, and after making sure that you are paying attention, give you the middle finger."

"Say what you know, what you don't know, and what you believe -- and label it accordingly."

"Always have an exit strategy."

"Never skip a step. Skip a step, you'll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you."

"There are only three things in life; things that have already happened, things that haven't happened yet and the thing happening right now."

"No matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."

"It is easier to make things appear different than to make them different."

"Maybe I'm no runner up, just the first one to lose the race. Almost only really counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

"If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."

"Death doesn't frighten me any more than going to sleep or that time before I was born does."

"One thing that participating in sports and games has taught me is how to lose gracefully."

"He was so obsessed with living forever, he forgot to enjoy the life he had."

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one."

"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of it's life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant..."

"That's the thing about science. It's true whether you believe it or not."

I did not research the actual quote. You can see these are slightly different. But you get the idea.

"I never believe in anything that requires my belief for it to work."

"Religion has been described as a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that is not there."

"Science knows it doesn't know everything. Otherwise it'd stop."

"The universe is so old, and human life so recent, so much of the volume of the universe is actively hostile to life, it seems arrogant that someone made it all 'for us'."