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Vernor Vinge has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What we have is a data glut.
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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…
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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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Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its…
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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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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation…
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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…
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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
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Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
— Alexander Cockburn
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She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was…
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Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
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The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden…
— Learned Hand
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
— Israel Shenker
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