William Gibson
The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that’s something peculiar to our time. I don’t think our grandparents had to live with that.
William JamesThe deepest difference, practically, in the moral life of man is the difference between the easygoing and the strenuous mood. When in the easygoing mood the shrinking from present ill is our ruling consideration. The strenuous mood, on the contrary, makes us quite indifferent to present ill, if only the greater ideal be attained.
Ray KurzweilThe matter and energy in our vicinity will become infused with the intelligence, knowledge, creativity, beauty, and emotional intelligence (the ability to love, for example) of our humanmachine civilization. . . . So in a sense, we can say that the Singularity will ultimately infuse the universe with spirit.