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"We are all in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How big is this collection of stars? Somewhere between 200 and 400 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy, about 100,000 light years across."

“It’s not about being perfect. It’s about reducing suffering where we can, and right now, we’re choosing not to.”

“The very same time that’s making you anxious is actually your most valuable asset. You can always create more energy and more money—but you can never create more time.”

"The disease is the fact that liberalism, which used to be an ideology of building, has become an ideology of blocking."

"You need to embrace these systems and try out what's going on because if you don't understand it, you really can't hope to help your organization adapt and stay in front of this momentous, world-changing technology."

"I think happiness is not a smiling face, it's more a smiling soul."

"It's a true fact, but a bizarre one, that the reason why hundreds of thousands of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than Kyoto and Kokura, is because of a 19-year-old vacation and a passing cloud."

"There is interesting ethical questions about how we should actually conduct ourselves in [a space colonization] exploration phase."

"There's a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins."

"The more uncertain and scary things get in the world, the more we as humans are drawn to simple dichotomies."

"Being aware of your mindsets is the difference between living a conscious life, where you're making choices in accord with what you actually want and going where you actually wanna go, versus being on autopilot and having those mindsets subconsciously drive all of your decisions."

“I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.”

"Asking the question of, "Where did the entire universe come from?" is no longer a question for poets and theologians and philosophers. This is a question for scientists, and we have some amazing scientific answers to this question."

"What would a totalitarian society that is not well disposed to our own do if it had God-like power? We don't wanna find out."

"These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that's a problem."

"Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental."

"Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We're beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things."

"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."

How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.