No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.