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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.

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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
Butterflies
Butterfly
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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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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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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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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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What we have is a data glut.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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