Quotes About Impact

My heart is a chainsaw, yes, but you're the one who starts it.

If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.

We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.

We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.

Maybe it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.

When we invented fire, we messed up repeatedly, then invented the fire extinguisher. With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and strong artificial intelligence, we should instead plan ahead and aim to get things right the first time, because it may be the only chance we will get. Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let's make sure that wisdom wins.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

One way or another, I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

if the sun were to cease to shine at this very moment, it would not affect things on earth at the present time because they would be in the elsewhere of the event when the sun went out.

Noi cre?m istoria prin observa?iile noastre, iar nu istoria ne creeaz? pe noi.

I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years

El calentamiento global es causado por todos nosotros: queremos coches, viajes y un mejor nivel de vida.

Trump now exerting new forces in relation to immigration and the development of education

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

There are always consequences. Nothing occurs without consequences. You must face consequences.

Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.

Single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away.

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

Words have weight.