Similar to the monthly Rationality Quotes threads, this is a thread for memorable quotes about Artificial General Intelligence.
Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
once an intelligent machine is built, it can be used for the design of an even better machine and so on; so that the invention of the first intelligent machine is the last invention that man need make.
Similar to the monthly Rationality Quotes threads, this is a thread for memorable quotes about Artificial General Intelligence.