All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

Don’t try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

Faith in God gives faith in self.

Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy.

Mangers consolidate the present. Leaders create the future.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

You will win with either color if you are the better player, but it takes longer with Black.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.