“If you are too careful about taking risks, you end up not doing anything. If you don’t want to take any responsibilities, again you end up doing nothing in life. Transhumanists are the ones who actually want to take risks and want to take responsibilities. And that’s what we are doing!”

“Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.”

“Who does the novel belong to? I am writing about a different reality, so I need to shape it to fit my reality. You don’t want to do the same. You don’t want to do the done thing. To take a risk, you still need to be absolutely on the margins. I am doing what I want to do.”

“Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.”

“Sometimes the things you want are hard to take
Sometimes the ones you love are risks that you don't make.”

“The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”

“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”

“If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.”

“…my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.”

“One person cannot be responsible for everything, even in their own lives. When we divide up responsibility according to what responsibility we want to have, we will no longer see this huge gap within society between those who take all the responsibility and those who take none.”