At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

be determined with patience that's it.. game is yours..

This body, this body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in this body, this body holding me. Feeling eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.