Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

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.

Men don't hate anything if there's no hatred in their hearts.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.