Commonplace Quote by Vernor Vinge

“The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding…

— Ray Kurzweil

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

— Vernor Vinge

I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately…

— Jamais Cascio

I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work…

— Charles Stross

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new…

— Jasmine Guy

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

— Anonymous

Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't…

— Ron Currie Jr

“The prediction that the Singularity—an expansion of human intelligence by a factor of trillions through merger with its nonbiological form—will occur within the next…

— Ray Kurzweil

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

— Vernor Vinge

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

— Marc Andreessen

“ONE DAY THE Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant. Probably not, though.”

— Charlie Jane Anders

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded,…

— Powell Clayton