The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

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

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

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

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

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