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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.

Vernor Vinge

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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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Lived
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Law
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Life
Revenge

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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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What we have is a data glut.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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