Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.