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....

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

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,....

These robots are literally inhuman, and yet I react no differently to their stumblings and topplings....

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....