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Vernor Vinge Inspirational Quotes (56)

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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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