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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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We're endangered by our own success.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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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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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 humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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