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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

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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Greed
Goes
Forever
Politics
May

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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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