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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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Forever
Politics
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Greed

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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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