Vernor Vinge Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Its agents -- not even
human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's
automation
human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's
automation
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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.
welts long enough for them to grow eyes. Nature does indeed prefer that cobblies be created right before the Dark.
Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.
This was the pretech experience, that even if you had no enemies the world itself could kill you. And
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
Though his invention worked superbly [ ... ] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.
Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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!
While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.
Now on Tines World, the Zone physics was still improving. What was it like thirty lightyears higher? Bili
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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.
The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as
long as all the time before
long as all the time before
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood ... and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.