1. “W humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.”
2. “We’re endangered by our own success.”
3. “So much technology, so little talent.”
4. “Technical people don’t make good slaves. Without their whole hearted cooperation, things fall apart.”
5. “Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”
6. “We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.”
7. “Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all – no one’s around to write horror stories.”
8. “Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.”
9. “Effective translation of natural language comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.”
10. “The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.”
11. “When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.”
12. “Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.”
13. “Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.”
14. “The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.”
15. “Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levelers; deception, when it works, it is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
