The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

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

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.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.