Quotes by Vernor Vinge

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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.

Comfort

Evil

Twisted

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.

Jobs

Law

Revenge

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.

Optimism

Thinking

Years

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work – the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

Animal

Problem

World

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

Corny

Ideas

Progress

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Increase

Information

Natural

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Happens

Singularity

Technological

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

Language

Natural

Program

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

Avalanches

Small Things

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Gun

Mind

Thunder

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Agreement

Algorithms

Animal

Approach

Artificial Intelligence

Avalanches

Believe

Black

Broken

Butterfly

Cases

Change

Comfort

Competition

Cooperation

Corny

Creating

Creative

Cry

Data

Deception

Developers

Dies

Domain

Earth

Empathy

Eras

Evil

Extinction

Faces

Fall

Fiction

Flexibility

Flying

Forever

Fractions

Goes On

Greed

Green

Gun

Hair

Happens

Heart

Heaven

Horror Stories

Hours

Humanity

Humans

Hurt

Ideas

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Quotes by Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge

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.

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.

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.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work – the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

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