Martin Svoboda

“Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.”

“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.”

“To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans.”

“Isn't it lovely, all alone
Heart made of glass, my mind of stone
Tear me to pieces, skin to bone
Hello, welcome home”

“Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small. Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.”

“I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good.”

“I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?”

“If I'm in a bad mood, or if I'm uncomfortable, it's probably what I'm wearing that's making me feel that way.”

“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”

“When you attack us, you will see our faces. Not our backs, but our faces.”

“The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.”

“The most terrible iron is not missiles, aircraft, and tanks, but shackles.”

“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”

“In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.”

“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”

“Any possibility for improving the effective utilization of the intellectual power of society’s problem solvers warrants the most serious consideration. This is because man’s problem-solving capability represents possibly the most important resource possessed by a society. The other contenders for first importance are all critically dependent for their development and use upon this resource.”

“Payoff will come when we make better use of computers to bring communities of people together and to augment the very human skills that people bring to bear on difficult problems.”

“If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it. No hard feelings.”

“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”