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

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.

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

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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

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

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.