Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.

It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.