He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

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.

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.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

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