provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control

I must have been sleeping through all the other quotations of this. It's the first time I noticed this was a part of the original text.

It was left off: http://singinst.org/summit/overview/whatisthesingularity/

It's left off the wikipedia entry that references it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

And this other random high Google hit: http://www.committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1771

I guess one upshot is that I pulled up the original article to verify (and no the comment about Vernor Vinge was not in the original). Scholarship!