Nick Bostrom Quotes

The thorniest problems are never technological.

Nobody is completely perfect.

Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.

We are all human beings. We are not machines that everything you put in comes out perfect.

We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

Humans tend to underestimate the risks that stem from their behavior and overestimate those that are involuntary, including low level exposure to substances in the enviornment.

If generations past could get things so badly wrong, then we are forever vulnerable as well.

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.

Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

You can't be perfect for 90 minutes.

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

Everyone I've ever played has been flawed.

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

At the end of the day, I know I'm not Superman.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.