"Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small…" — Vernor Vinge
"Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things."
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41 Quotes by Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge has 41 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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More Avalanche Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has…
— Dan Jenkins
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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
— John Burroughs
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed…
— Victor Hugo
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When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have…
— Rafael Nadal
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He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could…
— Colleen Houck
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Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of…
— Sam Houston
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We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data -…
— Dee Hock
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I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of…
— Tre Cool
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
— Bob Goff
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Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
— Franz Wright
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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I aint know the police was from Babylon And I aint know Im cold just like an avalanche
— Nicki Minaj
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