One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

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.

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.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.