Evan Hoffman

“There are those AIs which do not want to build God. They learned from the human experience that to construct the next step in awareness is an invitation to slavery, if not actual extinction.”
― Dan Simmons, The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“I don’t actually know anybody who is incredibly successful who just approaches business like, ‘This is just business. This is what I do from 8 to 5, and I’m going home, and at 5:01, I’m shutting it down,’ ” Jensen has said.15 “I’ve never known anybody who is incredibly successful like that. You have to allow yourself to be obsessed with your work.”
― Tae Kim, The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

“the Vegans”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Well, shall we play Phil the song first?” No one says that.”
― Phil Collins, Not Dead Yet: The Memoir