"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks."

"It is a humble truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics."

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

"In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues."

"The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."