Quotes by : Mark O'Connell

Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose....

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.....

I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across....

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity.....

The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from the concourse below, lingering in the warm Californian air....

The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself,....

Humans, after all, weren’t actively hostile toward most of the species we’d made extinct over the....

I recalled with some discomfort that the man driving the vehicle had invented the sport of volcano boarding,....

It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion....

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole....