As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.