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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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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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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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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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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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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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What we have is a data glut.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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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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