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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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