Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

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?

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

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

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.

We're endangered by our own success.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.