Time is a one way road that only goes forward so that you know which direction t… but you can still go the wrong way down a one way road
People wonder how long it will tak… AI to get smarter than us but the smart money is on us getting dumber than AI first
Thinking of happiness as the meaning of life is like thinking of sugar as the meaning of food
Like anything else immortality has its pros and cons: Our chickens never come home to ro… but our cows never come home eithe…
Human beings have always used the symbolic to navigate the real; until recently we did so by imagining that the symbolic is rea… whereas scientists imagine that
God has each of us on a leash And it is almost exactly like the… That let’s your dog roam within li… But for one crucial difference– On God’s leash we can go
Everyone makes fun of the weatherman for getting the forecast wrong as if getting it right is his real job
When the world is a tsar Insisting: Don’t you dare be who… Take it as a dare and risk the sca…
It’s not for me to judge What is it? Me And I’ve gotta be me So, free will consists of
The prevailing mood was that of a nuclear submarine having failed to deter Armageddon
We put tracking collars around ani… We put smartphones in our hands And in holding them We have our hands around our necks
If you travel through time it’s always the best of times and the worst of times; it’s just the ratio
Caught between a rock and a hard p… we will sink or swim: Sink like a rock or swim in a hard place– the opposite of walking on water–
You need a high in– come to claim the moral high ground on your taxes
A mid-life crisis happens when you realize that life is a treadmill which keeps speeding up until you fall off