Quotes by : Vernor Vinge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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