The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

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.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

we need deep cleansing of our thoughts on and often so that we can recharge our energy for our own health, happiness and purpose

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.