Vernor Vinge Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Joe E. Lewis

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Changing a habit or routine doesn't happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take easing into the change to make it work for you. Waking up earlier is no exception.

John Rampton

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Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Amy Chua

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I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

Molly Quinn

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It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Joyce Maynard

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I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.

Jason Kander

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When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening. I had to have that role.

Jason Momoa

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Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

Daymond John

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I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Chris Evans

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They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.

Chris Van Allsburg

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Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Clyde Tombaugh

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As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

Allyson Schwartz

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