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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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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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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
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