As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'
I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.
When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.
Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.
'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.
The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.
Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary
I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.
People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.
Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.
