Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us.

يمكن القول أن الحب هو ملح الأرض وهو ملح تفسد الأرض بغيره، ولكنه ملح يبدأ طعمه كالسكر ، ثم يتحول لطبيعته الأصليه

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes a goal-oriented approach to cosmology, imposing upon the universe itself a kind of corporate project-management structure, composed of a series of key deliverables across deep time.

I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!

...she was honest enough to admit she married him because actions other men would not conceive of to start with or carry out to finish with were ordinary for [him]... not that she ever wanted or needed a husband who would steal without compunction, but she wanted that toughness, that hard eyed indifference to what anyone else thought, to - danger.

He was Pinocchio to my Gepetto.