Avalanches Quote by Vernor Vinge Download Open image “Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.” — Vernor Vinge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avalanches Small things
Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake. — Thomas Frey Copy Share Image
“We are hearing the early rumblings of what may become an avalanche in strength.” — Charles Sutherland Elton Copy Share Image
I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man. — R.L. LaFevers Copy Share Image
You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels. — David Gerrold 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
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes -… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources,… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
