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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

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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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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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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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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 heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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're endangered by our own success.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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