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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
Technology
Littles
Little
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Talent

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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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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.
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What we have is a data glut.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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