We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

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?

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!

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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

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