I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

We all have the duty to do good.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

I don’t write policy for my government.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

We all have done something unethical.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.