But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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.

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.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.