So much technology, so little talent.

Vernor Vinge


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

Vernor Vinge

Tags: humor insanity war



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Les enfants sont des créatures extraordinaires, quand ils ne sont pas simplement chiants.

Vernor Vinge

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[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.

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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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Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.

Vernor Vinge

Tags: programming archaeology



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Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

Vernor Vinge

Tags: theory invention works praxis



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They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite what had happened, nor the result of the strivings.
"A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge


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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

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Tags: sorrow crying hurting



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Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.

Vernor Vinge

Tags: librarians



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