Davidius

“novel The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, author Neal Stephenson gives readers a glimpse of what AI experts call a “lifelong learning companion”: an agent that tracks learning over the course of one’s lifetime, both insuring a mastery-level education and making exquisitely personalized recommendations about what exactly a student should learn next.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“every pirate and privateer has lurking within him the soul of an accountant. Though some would say ’tis the other way round.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle: The Complete New York Times Bestselling Trilogy of Historical Intrigue and Adventure

“Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)”
― Charles Stross, Accelerando

“every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library, written in cyphers that are more or less obscure, arranged by a scheme—of which we can at first know nothing, other than that there does appear to be some scheme.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Confusion