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1. "Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time." ~ Vernor Vinge
2. "I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt." ~ Vernor Vinge
3. "Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things." ~ Vernor Vinge
4. "How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?" ~ Vernor Vinge
5. "I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth." ~ Vernor Vinge
6. "But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will." ~ Vernor Vinge
7. "It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules." ~ Vernor Vinge
8. "IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is." ~ Vernor Vinge
9. "He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft." ~ Vernor Vinge
10. "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." ~ Vernor Vinge
11. "We're endangered by our own success." ~ Vernor Vinge
12. "Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded." ~ Vernor Vinge
13. "The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors." ~ Vernor Vinge
14. "The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility." ~ Vernor Vinge
15. "The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity." ~ Vernor Vinge
16. "We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light." ~ Vernor Vinge
17. "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." ~ Vernor Vinge
18. "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." ~ Vernor Vinge
19. "I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence." ~ Vernor Vinge
20. "I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology." ~ Vernor Vinge
21. "In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds." ~ Vernor Vinge
22. "You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering." ~ Vernor Vinge
23. "Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant." ~ Vernor Vinge
24. "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
25. "So much technology, so little talent." ~ Vernor Vinge
26. "[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become." ~ Vernor Vinge
27. "Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it." ~ Vernor Vinge
28. "Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption." ~ Vernor Vinge
29. "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
30. "Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle." ~ Vernor Vinge
31. "Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality." ~ Vernor Vinge
32. "Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased." ~ Vernor Vinge
33. "They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite what had happened, nor the result of the strivings."A Fire Upon the Deep" ~ Vernor Vinge
34. "On this small world, there will be no more real darkness. But there will always be the Dark. Go out tonight, Lady Pedure. Look up. We are surrounded by the Dark and always will be. And just as our Dark ends with the passage of time in a New Sun, so the greater Dark ends at the shores of a million million stars. Think! If our sun's cycle was once less than a year, then even earlier our sun might have been middling bright all the time. I have students who are sure most of the stars are just like our sun, only much much younger, and many with worlds like ours. You want a deepness that endures, a deepness that Spiderkind can depend on? Pedure, there is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever." ~ Vernor Vinge
35. "The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was aslong as all the time before" ~ Vernor Vinge
36. "Les enfants sont des créatures extraordinaires, quand ils ne sont pas simplement chiants." ~ Vernor Vinge
37. "So High,So Low, So Many Things to Know" ~ Vernor Vinge
38. "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
39. "Five seconds, ten seconds, more change than ten thousand years of a humancivilization. A billion trillion constructions, mold curling out from every wall,rebuilding what had been merely superhuman." ~ Vernor Vinge
40. "Its agents -- not evenhuman equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship'sautomation" ~ Vernor Vinge
41. "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
42. "Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart." ~ Vernor Vinge
43. "Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history." ~ Vernor Vinge
44. "One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability." ~ Vernor Vinge
45. "Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories." ~ Vernor Vinge

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Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way."
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