But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

So much technology, so little talent.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

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

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.