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• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  Vernor Vinge

  Information, Natural, Increase

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

  Vernor Vinge

  Liars, Once Upon A Time, Mouths

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.546, Macmillan

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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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  Two, Evil, Broken

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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

  Vernor Vinge

  Poor, Humans, Dies

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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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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  Writing, Horror Stories, Sometimes

  "A Fire Upon the Deep". Book by Vernor Vinge, April 1992.

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

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  Hair, Voice, Scalpels

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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• I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

  Vernor Vinge

  Profound, Research, Artificial Intelligence

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