"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will……" — Vernor Vinge
"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."
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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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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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I want to do something creative, not just easy.
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who…
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't…
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
— Ansel Adams
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
— Ansel Adams
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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It…
— Steve Ballmer
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My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that…
— Eric Bana
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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