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.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

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

So much technology, so little talent.