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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

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

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We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

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

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

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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

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Vernor Vinge

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Born: October 2, 1944
Died: March 20, 2024 (aged 79)
Bio: Vernor Steffen Vinge was a San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author.
Known for:
  1. A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
  2. A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
  3. Rainbows End (2006)
  4. The Children of the Sky (2011)
  5. The Peace War (1984)
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