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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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