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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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What we have is a data glut.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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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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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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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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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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