There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
I have come to kill you. "The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own. . . When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.