Vernor Vinge
Writer
1944-02-10
Books by Vernor Vinge
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A Fire upon the Deep
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
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Quotes by Vernor Vinge
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Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. With one exception, she'd revealed these to Johanna and then to Woodcarver, and— after it was founded— to the Executive Council. Ravna had kept her mouth shut about the surveillance suite; she and the Children were trapped on a world of medieval strangers....So at the beginning Ravna had kept some secrets. It was now years too late to reveal this one. In the Beyond, —cameras— were more than what early tech civilizations imagined. Cameras could be a coat of paint, or critters that looked like insects, or even a bacterial infection. Delivery of the information to the observer could be even stranger, a diffuse cloud of perturbations— acoustic, visual, thermal— that took enormous processing to reconstruct.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.
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Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. With one exception, she'd revealed these to Johanna and then to Woodcarver, and— after it was founded— to the Executive Council. Ravna had kept her mouth shut about the surveillance suite; she and the Children were trapped on a world of medieval strangers....So at the beginning Ravna had kept some secrets. It was now years too late to reveal this one. In the Beyond, —cameras— were more than what early tech civilizations imagined. Cameras could be a coat of paint, or critters that looked like insects, or even a bacterial infection. Delivery of the information to the observer could be even stranger, a diffuse cloud of perturbations— acoustic, visual, thermal— that took enormous processing to reconstruct.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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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 events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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