Vernor Vinge Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Jim Flaherty

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All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.

Joe Gibbs

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I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

John Burnside

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When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

Andre Leon Talley

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I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

John White Geary

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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steven Biko

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We have people on the road with us - our wives, our families and pastors. We come alongside each other, and we're always in prayer.

Sonny Sandoval

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In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

Martin O'Malley

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Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Louis C. K.

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I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Julia Sweeney

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When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Drake

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I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

Christopher Buckley

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