"The physical extinction of the human race is……" — Vernor Vinge
"The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility."
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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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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 Extinction Quotes
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should…
— Heston Blumenthal
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens…
— Wernher von Braun
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely…
— Jean Dubuffet
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces…
— Steven Weinberg
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of…
— Bertrand Russell
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested…
— Abraham Lincoln
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