The domes and dildos of pressurized buildings cast slowly lengthening shadows.
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich, but the more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.These people are often selfish brats...
Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels...
We have chickens! And ostriches—they’re like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur—that’s like a really huge chicken, with teeth—but for architectural reasons we can...
The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes may be huge but unnoticed, or indeed miscategorized not as crimes at all because...
A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created ou...
So you're saying, we've got a, a shoggoth gap?
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my w...
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
Don’t you have any concept of individuality? she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with her internal states.Individuality is an unnecessary barrier to information transfer, says the ghost,...
Darmstadt is one of those German towns that, having been landscaped by Allied heavy bombers, rezoned by the Red Army, and rebuilt by the Marshall Plan, demonstrates perfectly that (a) sometimes it’s b...
I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's desire
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.
When humans gather, crime is certain.
Waaant equity, hisses the alien intruder.You can't be Pamela Macx, says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobster-woman-thing. She's in a nunnery in Armenia or something...
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in...
One of the quirkier cognitive disorders to which software project management is prone.
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.
I stared at him. You’re a , Rudi! She’s a mermaid. What you thinking?