Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.