The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.

The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.