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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
May
Come
Greed
Goes
Forever
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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 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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