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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
Will,
"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Will,
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
Explore more quotes by Vernor Vinge
"In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds."
"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."
"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."
"The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being."
"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
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