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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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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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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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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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