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So much technology, so little talent.

Vernor Vinge

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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Talent
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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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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