Vernor Vinge

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."

"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."

"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."

"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."