Quote

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

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
Gun
Everybody
Else
Daft
Made
Nearby
Mind
Cleared
Claimed
Agreed
Thunder

More quotes by Vernor Vinge

Image
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
Vernor Vinge
Image
What we have is a data glut.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
Vernor Vinge
Image
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Vernor Vinge
Image
One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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
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.
Vernor Vinge
Image
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
Vernor Vinge
Image
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
Image
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
Vernor Vinge
Image
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge
Image
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge
Image
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.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
Vernor Vinge
Image
It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
Vernor Vinge
Image
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
Vernor Vinge