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We're endangered by our own success.

Vernor Vinge

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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
Endangered
Success

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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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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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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 is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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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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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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What we have is a data glut.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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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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