Vernor Vinge Quotes

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took...

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profo...

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without gettin...

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other...

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only f...

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, th...

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never gu...

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a uni...

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

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and...

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. W...

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

It is an edged cliché that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that ...

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traff...

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in som...