I felt a terrible sadness open inside me, a void through which the winds from the end of the universe were blowing. - Alastair Reynolds

I can't tell you how much happier I'd be meeting a bunch of artificial intelligences if I also happened to have one on my side." "Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.

All machines knew what would happen to them when their masters lost faith in their infallibility.

Crime is an adaptive organism. Squeeze one niche and it moves into another.