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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

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
Time
Liars
Fish
Fishes
Mouths
Talk
Upon
Right
Good
Liar

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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.
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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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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