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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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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Evil
Two
Enough
Sometimes
Carnage
Mind
Amid
Good
Rules
Minds
Broken

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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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