As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.