What is Stage 4? Transcendence. Singularity.

“You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.”

— Clyde Dsouza

The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with…

— Ray Kurzweil

“I'm no one... I don't want to be anyone. I stepped into singularity to exist within a void. I'm no one... However, I am…

— Lionel Suggs

“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential…

— Talal Asad

All things are reproductions, ideas are reproductions of original thought. In terms of the ultimate singularity, all things are nothingness. Reverse on the inside,…

— Jeremy Limn

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine…

— David Marusek

Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall…

— Ron Currie Jr

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five…

— Kevin Kelly

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon,…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories…

— David Richo

No one gets anyones life; we are all different in our own aspect

— Ramandeep Singh

“the good man’s only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him,”

— Diana Gabaldon