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“We will merge with AI and augment ourselves with millions of times the computational power that our biology gave us.”
"To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"
"The NASA managers and astronauts alike were in the grip of what they would later recognize as “‘Go’ Fever”—the desperate drive to push on toward a launch..."
"What separates you from an earthworm is not the unit of intelligence itself—neurons—but how these units are wired together."
"Could there be someone watching our Earth right now, also wondering if they are alone or not? For the very first time, we have the technology to investigate."
"My hope for AI isn’t that it creates a new upgraded species without the messiness of humanity, but that it helps us ordinary, flawed humans live our best and happiest lives."
"Often it is the outsider, unburdened by the past, who becomes the pattern-breaking person behind a pattern-breaking idea."
"The world’s chip industry, as well as the assembly of all the electronic goods chips enable, depends more on the Taiwan Strait and the South China coast than on any other chunk of the world’s territory except Silicon Valley."
"With its high profits and bifurcated labor force, California modeled capitalist discipline for the nation."
"I like ridiculous questions because nobody is expected to know the answer, which means it’s okay to be confused."
"The metaverse will challenge our assumptions about what is real, what is valuable, and what is possible."
"Run after your obsessions with everything you have. Just be sure to take notes along the way."
"We now have the power to control our genetic future, which is awesome and terrifying. So we must move forward cautiously and with respect for the power we’ve gained."
"In the age of AI, the most valuable commodity will be data, and those who control it will hold enormous power."
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"The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over."
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"Perhaps among the other universes in the multiverse, there is a new home for us."
"The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being."
"Measure what you value, and others will value what you measure."
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"AI has the potential to fundamentally alter what it means to be human, but we need to ensure that we retain control over our own destiny."
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"Our future will be shaped by the answers we find to these questions: What do we want to become? What do we want to want?"
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"Tencent's founder, Pony Ma, has always been focused on the long-term, and he has consistently invested in new technologies and industries with an eye towards the future."
"Innovation requires a long-term perspective and a willingness to invest in research and development, even when the benefits may not be immediate."
"History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves."
"Science made the bomb possible, but it was politics that brought it into existence."
"The strategies and plans that managers formulate for confronting disruptive technological change, therefore, should be plans for learning and discovery rather than plans for execution."
"All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition."
"Growth is a universal phenomenon, but its patterns are anything but uniform."
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"Climate change is a global problem, and we need a global solution that includes all countries and sectors of society."
"The best thing you can do is choose to be in a profession that allows you to become the best version of yourself."
"The most important thing is not to know everything, but to have the courage to test everything."
"From an insurgent underdog in entertainment, a money pit, something of a joke, YouTube had become one of the most dominant, influential, untamed, and successful media businesses on the planet."