John Twelve Hawks

"Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations."

"Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting."

"In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care."

"Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings."

"One of the pleasures of writing novels is that my characters usually do something. But in real life we often stay locked in a situation that we know is painful or wrong."

"Artificial intelligence is a concept that obscures accountability. Our problem is not machines acting like humans -- it’s humans acting like machines."

"A Vast Machine watched and evaluated them, remembering their past actions and predicting their future behavior."

"True ideology has vanished, replaced by fear and fantasy. The right wing wants corporate control and a return to a past that never existed. The left wing wants government control and a future that wil…"