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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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I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.
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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…
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My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.
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The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s,…
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Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
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Get jiggy Get crunked up percolate anything you want to call it. Oscillate you hip and dont take pity.
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Put these words on your head and let them percolate We need to separate church and state.
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