Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

People can and do change.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Avoid your comfort zone - it's probably outdated anyway.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.

If we're going to stay the gold standard, we're going to stay ahead of the curve, well, then, when people try to do the things we're doing, we're trying to do more. We're trying to do something different. We're coming at it a different way. That, for me, to be honest, is the fun part.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

I'm always experimenting and trying different things. That's what keeps it fun and encourages growth.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens with that. Because if you're not moving forward and you're not evolving, you're devolving, and I don't want to go backwards. I want to be better at what I do tomorrow than I am today. I don't want to be worse.

I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun.