So much technology, so little talent.

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.

When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror.

I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

I will greet this day with love in my heart.