"If I could do it all over again, and relive my vision in the 21st century, I would be a microbial ecologist. Ten billion bacteria live in a gram of ordinary soil [..] They represent thousands of species, almost none of which are known to science."

"These are mainly quotes that I have collected during my AI research, plus a few I encountered under other circumstances. They all struck me as relevant to Seed AI, Friendly AI or the Singularity in general."

"A lack of concrete AGI projects is not what worries me, it's the lack of concrete plans on how to keep these safe that worries me. A massive legion is being assembled at the gate, and the best response we have come up with is an all-star debate team."

Martin Rees, professor of cosmology: "I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead — for our planet, and for life itself."