"The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency."

"As typography once dictated the style of conducting politics, religion, business, education, law, and other important social matters, television now takes command. In courtrooms, classrooms, operating rooms, boardrooms, churches, and even airplanes, Americans no longer talk to each other. They entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas. They exchange images."

"Respect, understanding, and love are not technical problems."

"I never pray and ask for God to be on my side, I pray and hope to be on God's side and there is something about betting on deep learning that feels like being on the side of the angels."

"The antidote to this abundance of information is distillation: figuring out which information is important and discarding the rest. But distillation is downstream of interrogation: if you ask the right questions, the information filters itself."

"A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse."

"Feeling split by a million different possibilities is an amazing waste of time."

"A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognised, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round."

"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."

"National Socialism is nothing but applied biology."

"Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites by keeping them both and keeping them both furious."

"Pharmaceutical companies can make plenty of profit turning molecules into medicines, but they can’t go looking into the mouths of gila monsters, asking "Any good drugs in here?" Thats how we got GLP-1 agonists, which are now used by millions of people."

"We confess our small faults only to convince people that we have no greater ones."

"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words."

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

"The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort, you were made for greatness."

"When we lack the power to do anything, sensitivity becomes our main aim.. the aim is not so much to do anything, as to be judged."

"The future belongs to those who scuttle the ships."

"Paraphrasing my co-founder Ilya, I don’t know what the meaning of life is, but I am sure it has something to do with babies."

"Concern for man himself and his fate must always constitute the chief objective of all technological endeavors...in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."

"If your whole business is just one prompt..."

"Innovation without conversion is just iteration."

"A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God."

"Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You."

"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

"The Internet is a cream that you rub on investors to get them all excited."

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."

"Beauty will save the world."

"I’ve found it, or rather, I stopped looking, and it found me—in the silence that doesn’t need to be filled, in the life I used to think I had to earn but which turns out, like grace, cannot be earned at all. So, what should you do when you’re madly in love? Nothing. You should do nothing and just be. You should stare at him like a fool. You should ruin your routines. You should forget your ambitions for a moment, let your heart sing and let your soul have the day off. You should eat breakfast slowly. You should let the laundry pile up. You should rest your forehead into the nook of his neck and say, "You are here, for now, where everything is perfect and exactly where it should be." When you are madly in love, the most radical thing you can do is nothing. You shouldn’t care anymore. You have dropped the pen. There is no better story. There is only this, and this is enough. Let the world go on spinning. You, on the other hand, have already arrived."

"He refused to cheapen the atoms by turning them into bytes."

"Instead of AI killing 30% of the jobs, which would be catastrophic and terrible, AI is killing 30% of your job, which is actually an amazing time saver...it's empowering people more than replacing people, at least so far."

"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry."

"Watch your thoughts, they become words; Watch your words, they become actions; Watch your actions, they become habits; Watch your habits, they become character; Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."

"To be boy-tolerant is not to indulge immaturity or excuse vice; it is to recognize in a boy’s energy the raw material of virtue. The goal is to help a boy learn how to channel his vitality toward good ends. The world does not need nice guys; it needs dangerously good men."

"All addictions are a low-level search for God."

"How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself?"

"Call a boy a gentleman and watch his shoulders straighten. Call a girl a lady and watch her spirit turn graceful. Humanity was brought into existence by God speaking words into the void of the universe. We tend to become what we are called."

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall."

"Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder."

"Remember that we get to choose our discomfort. There are only two options. The initial discomfort to stimulate change and the delayed discomfort as consequence for avoiding change."

"Be the evils what they may, the experiment is not yet played out. The United States are not yet made; they are not a finished fact to be categorically assessed."

"The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild."

"Qui aime bien chatie bien"

"If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders."

"The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."