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.

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

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

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

One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.....

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....