Or at least that's what my friend Cy and his sister Sue say.

I remember when he was Lucius Aelius Sejanus in the BBC production of "I, Claudius".

how AI now does everything--you just need to buy the AI from them.

What a surprise.

Except for, you know, the people we fired.

Yeah! Just pick out all the helium atoms, one by one, and you're done!

They're in the goddamn walls!

Well, let's thank them for saving the world, then!

Here's one about extrapolating trends: https://xkcd.com/605/

Because that's the received wisdom: if you don't like a decision, the best way to get it reversed is to yell about how it's going to lead to utter disaster and it MUST be changed at all costs.

Absolutely. It was collected in The Cyberiad. I'll go to the trouble of looking it up.

Here we are: "The First Sally, or, the Trap of Gargantius."

Reminds me of a Stanislaw Lem story in which two competing countries perfect a method of having their robotic armies connect up into supergenius networks, growing smarter as they grew bigger. Until the final day, when they were ready for all-out battle, and each had their army connect up into one big ultimate network before the two met...at which point both armies realized how stupid the whole war was, and simply didn't fight.

They were thinking, "We need people on PCs that are tied to the Google ecosystem."

The problem is that we have Lord Snapcase instead of Lord Vetinari.

Selling it isn't weird if it makes money...which it does, hand over fist.

*Buying* it is totally bizarre to me, but I can't deny people do.

Fruit flies like a BFG.