I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.