Darrin Snider

“But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it’s stuck. —MARVIN MINSKY”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“Give every sane and rational person a big red button to push to achieve instantaneous omnipotence, and all of them would quickly jam their fingers down on it.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
― William Gibson