We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

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

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

What we have is a data glut.