‘“You’re already getting paid as much as ‘Joe.’ You get that’s wrong, right?’ I mean yes, but I have the experience and the background to do what you need to do. And nobody else does, that’s just reality.”
“We need to think about how this technology can be beneficial, not only to people at the top of the pyramid, but also to people across the pyramid, and especially to those at the bottom of the pyramid.”
“The matter of fact is that everyone wants to claim the glory of being the first integrator of a new technology, but nobody wants to be the failure of the investment in unknown technology.”
“I hope they succeed, because if they do, the technology has a lot of potential to help many of those who haven’t benefited as much from the last couple of decades of technological growth.”
“And unlike Hawthorne’s men of study whose heads are in their books, Robin Hanson walks both in his sleep and in his waking moments– tirelessly, purposefully, and humbly investing himself in the “flesh and blood of action.””
“The big political fact of my childhood, and the dominant political fact of my adult life, was of course, the Cold War.”
“Billy Salomon comes back from lunch with the French Ambassador and his wife, and there’s a urinal on his office wall. Now, I thought that was pretty funny!”
“That voice, that professor, or that mentor who wants you to think clearly, to read more, or to read more intelligently… that voice, if you’re lucky, never leaves you.”
