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....

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

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

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

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

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.

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

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