Darrin Snider

“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

“Increasing complexity” on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045. The nonbiological intelligence created in that year will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“Anything that uses unbroken, infallible logic will, by its nature, attain pure evil.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager