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.

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

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

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

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

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.