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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

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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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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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?
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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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