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

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

When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

So much technology, so little talent.

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.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

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