All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

So much technology, so little talent.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.