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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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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Expensive
Terror
Works
Least
Pain
Levers
Best
Manipulation
Sometimes
Elegant
Deception

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