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.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

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

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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