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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

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
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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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.
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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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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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What we have is a data glut.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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