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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
Shrugged
Heads
Kill
Death
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Trying

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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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