Soenen Quotes & Sayings

Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb. Such is the mismatch between the power of our plaything and the immaturity of our conduct. Superintelligence is a challenge for which we are not ready now and will not be ready for a long time. We have little idea when the detonation will occur, though if we hold the device to our ear we can hear a faint ticking sound. — Nick Bostrom

If I could pick my own death, it would be on a roller coaster that jumps the tracks and careens into a packed crowd at a cotton candy stand at a state fair. — John Waters

This is the way I think I should always paint you- with a size twenty-four round brush in my hand as you coat the bristles — Ella Frank

Life is fragile and holds on by a thread. Remember all those in despair and say a prayer that they will have the hope to find the help that they need
Bullying Ben — Timothy Pina

He gave her his best smile. His
best I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at least
that's how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn't a very
accomplished flirt, and it might very well have come across as an Iam-
mildly-deranged-so-it's-in-all-of-our-best-interests-if-youpretend-
to-agree-with-me smile. — Julia Quinn

That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding. — Sarah Hepola

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

China is not going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. I do not believe you can impose on other countries standards which are alien and totally disconnected with their past. — Lee Kuan Yew

Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare

Whoever said there are many girls in the world lied.There is only one — Retshepile Kenneth Mongali

who wishes to fight must first count the cost — Sun Tzu

I just love poker players. — James Woods

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to! — Susan Sontag

The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary. — Robert G. Allen

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me. — C.S. Lewis