Quote

So much technology, so little talent.

Vernor Vinge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Talent
Technology
Littles
Little
Much

More quotes by Vernor Vinge

Image
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Vernor Vinge
Image
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge
Image
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge
Image
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Vernor Vinge
Image
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
Vernor Vinge
Image
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
Vernor Vinge
Image
He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge
Image
It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
Vernor Vinge
Image
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.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
Vernor Vinge
Image
I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
Vernor Vinge
Image
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.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Vernor Vinge