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

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

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?

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.

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

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.