He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“minds, who can show the rest of us what is important about the aliens’ differences. So Trixia’s” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
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… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
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