With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Music is something no one can control.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.