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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.

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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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Heads
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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 the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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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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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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