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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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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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