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There is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge.... And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Born:
October 2, 1944
(age 79)
Bio:
Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author.
Known for:
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
Rainbows End (2006)
The Children of the Sky (2011)
The Peace War (1984)
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