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.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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.

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

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

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.