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

If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

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

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.