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.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

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

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

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

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

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

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

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.

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.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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 think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

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

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a ‚singularity.‘

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

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

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

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

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

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

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

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.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

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.

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

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

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.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

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

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

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.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

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