And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.
Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.