Vernor Vinge Short Quotes

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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

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There is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever.

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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

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"Poor humans; they will all die."
"Poor us; we will not."

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"Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots."

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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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

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I have come to kill you.
The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.

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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

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Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.

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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

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

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

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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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The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.

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

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

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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

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