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.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

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.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.