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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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What we have is a data glut.
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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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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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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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