Vernor Vinge Quotes

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.

Vernor Vinge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 10, 1944

Topics

WorkWorldProblemsAdaptAnimals

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

Joan Rivers

YearNeedSeeOutI SeeWonderful

I'd love to say that I'm this brave person doing this big adventure and that it's easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, 'What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?'

Megan Shull

LoveTruthRideBikeAdventureMom

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

Anna Seward

MusicLearnDrawingEducateWould

I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.

Stephen Lang

ManCuriousGunFeelingWhyNest

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

Robbie Jones

MyselfTryingPlayTeachPianoHow

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

Mike Simpson

GreatFocusValueSupportResearch

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Loni Anderson

SisterSmokeNeverUpSecond-Hand

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

Diablo Cody

TimePersonalitySchoolKindClock

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Douglas Kennedy

HappinessPastPeopleWorldYou

I like people who do what they do incredibly well and are active in their non-acting life, too.

Chloe Pirrie

LifePeopleActiveWellWhoLike

Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you're a celebrity.

Christie Brinkley

TimePeopleMeSomeoneTalkingYou

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

Peter Malkin

MotherLieSecretJewishEvenAgent

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