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

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

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

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

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

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!

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.