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

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

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.

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 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.

you are ever the only onei want to giveall the peachesin my heart tothe only one by whomi want them bruised.

The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.

Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.