The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

An aware heart is a grateful heart.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose.