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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

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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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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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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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