“What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?”

“You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.”

“You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters”

“Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.”

“Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.”

“It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.”

“Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.”

“Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.”

“I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life.”

“Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.”

“Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.”