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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
Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving ... and that makes all the difference.
— Joan D. 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 evenhuman 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
Jule was a poet - poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence.
— Joan D. 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
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
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
— Joan D. Vinge
Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice ... and settling for revenge.
— Joan D. Vinge
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
— Joan D. Vinge
This was the pretech experience, that even if you had no enemies the world itself could kill you. And
— 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
Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything ... and not doing it only because you can.
— Joan D. Vinge
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Though his invention worked superbly [ ... ] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.
— Vernor Vinge
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
— Joan D. 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
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
— Vernor Vinge
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
— Vernor Vinge
He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.
— Joan D. Vinge
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
— Vernor Vinge
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
— Vernor Vinge
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
— Joan D. 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
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
— Joan D. 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
Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.
— Vernor Vinge
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
— Joan D. Vinge
So much technology, so little talent.
— 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 long must a fish study to understand human motivation?
— Vernor Vinge
Hexapodia as the key insight
— Vernor Vinge
The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was aslong as all the time before — 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
Now on Tines World, the Zone physics was still improving. What was it like thirty lightyears higher? Bili
— Vernor Vinge
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
— Vernor Vinge
We're endangered by our own success.
— Vernor Vinge
Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time.
— Vernor Vinge
Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
— Joan D. Vinge
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
— Vernor Vinge
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
— Joan D. Vinge
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
— Vernor Vinge
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
— Joan D. Vinge
All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain.
— Joan D. Vinge
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood ... and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
— Vernor Vinge
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
— Vernor Vinge
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
— Joan D. Vinge
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
— Vernor Vinge
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Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind.
— Joan D. Vinge
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
— Vernor Vinge