The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. - Michel de Montaigne

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We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

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Every man has within himself the entire human condition

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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Only the fools are certain and assured.

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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

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See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

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We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.

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By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

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