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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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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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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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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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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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 physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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