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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.
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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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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