Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

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.

Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

Feel like (I've been) released from prison.