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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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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Life
Revenge
Acts
Lived
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Law
Jobs
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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 voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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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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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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