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

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

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

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

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.