Quotes by : Mark O'Connell

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

When, some months later, Zoltan emailed me about his decision to run for president, I immediately called....

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.....

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,....

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....

This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

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