We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

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.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.