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

"A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse."

"Simply transferring work from the world to the screen entails deep changes in perspective. Greater stress is placed on abstraction, less on materiality. Calculative power grows; sensory engagement fails."

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

"Anybody who goes through life with open mind and open heart will encounter these moments of revelation, moments that are saturated with meaning, but whose meaning cannot be put into words. These moments are precious to us. When they occur it is as though, on the winding ill-lit stairway of our life, we suddenly come across a window, through which we catch sight of another and brighter world – a world to which we belong but which we cannot enter."

"The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things."

"AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do ‘without thinking.'"

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"National Socialism is nothing but applied biology."

"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."

"Innovation without conversion is just iteration."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Beauty will save the world."

"Quit playing it cool. Life is too short. Be intense and passionate and mildly insane. Now, whoever's left hanging is your friend."