If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

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.

There is a fine line that separates thinking you know something, and actually knowing the truth. It is a line as thin as a strand of hair, and it's called hope.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

My husband says spring will be early.He says this every year, And every year I disagree.He needs me, the dark side of the planetary equation.Together we make the equinox.

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.I don't want to lose him, another part argues.I don't know which part to believe.

I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.