Neil Stephenson on the singularity:

"""My thoughts are more in line with those of Jaron Lanier, who points out that while hardware might be getting faster all the time, software is shit (I am paraphrasing his argument). And without software to do something useful with all that hardware, the hardware's nothing more than a really complicated space heater."""

http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-responds-with-wit-and-humor