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....

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

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....

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

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....

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