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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season. — Vernor Vinge

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently. — Vernor Vinge

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever. — Vernor Vinge

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? — Vernor Vinge

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever. — Vernor Vinge

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. — Vernor Vinge

So High,
So Low,
So Many Things to Know — Vernor Vinge

Its agents -- not even
human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's
automation — Vernor Vinge

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? — Vernor Vinge

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not. — Vernor Vinge

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. — Vernor Vinge

This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage. — Vernor Vinge

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat. — Vernor Vinge

welts long enough for them to grow eyes. Nature does indeed prefer that cobblies be created right before the Dark. — Vernor Vinge

What we have is a data glut. — Vernor Vinge

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. — Vernor Vinge

Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle. — Vernor Vinge

We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge

Fong's obscenity-spattered fit about keyboards. So what to look — Vernor Vinge

This was the pretech experience, that even if you had no enemies the world itself could kill you. And — Vernor Vinge

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history. — Vernor Vinge

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge

Ty or Ra or Thect — Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched. — Vernor Vinge

Though his invention worked superbly [ ... ] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. — Vernor Vinge

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. — Vernor Vinge

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience. — Vernor Vinge

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. — Vernor Vinge

It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing. — Vernor Vinge

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this! — Vernor Vinge

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots. — Vernor Vinge

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt. — Vernor Vinge

I say, let's learn more and then speculate. — Vernor Vinge

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

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. — Vernor Vinge

For where there is heaven, there can also be hell. — Vernor Vinge

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn. — Vernor Vinge

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear. — Vernor Vinge

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. — Vernor Vinge

This was a commercial situation, not some exercise in an Applied Theology course. — Vernor Vinge

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. — Vernor Vinge

Now on Tines World, the Zone physics was still improving. What was it like thirty lightyears higher? Bili — Vernor Vinge

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. — Vernor Vinge

Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased. — Vernor Vinge

We're endangered by our own success. — Vernor Vinge

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability. — Vernor Vinge

So much technology, so little talent. — Vernor Vinge

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. — Vernor Vinge

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 life had left for him. — Vernor Vinge

The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as
long as all the time before — Vernor Vinge

Hexapodia as the key insight — Vernor Vinge

How long must a fish study to understand human motivation? — Vernor Vinge

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. — Vernor Vinge

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage. — Vernor Vinge

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. — Vernor Vinge

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. — Vernor Vinge

[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become. — Vernor Vinge

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. — Vernor Vinge

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. — Vernor Vinge

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality. — Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood ... and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it. — Vernor Vinge

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time. — Vernor Vinge

Ravna thought a moment. "Sysadmin is the usual term," she said. — Vernor Vinge

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe. — Vernor Vinge

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories. — Vernor Vinge

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths. — Vernor Vinge

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. — Vernor Vinge