Who among us can claim normalcy, Bishop?

Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of the irrational…This is the body’s intelligence, not the mind’s. Every living cell possess it…[the] indomitable will to survive.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.