"Once upon a time I was such a……" — Vernor Vinge
"Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths."
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41 Quotes by Vernor Vinge
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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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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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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind…
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or…
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
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I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the…
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