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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
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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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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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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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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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