Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor VingeAll evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Vernor VingeWe humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge