Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor VingeMots clés pain deception manipulation terror
We're endangered by our own success.
Vernor VingeMots clés success planning endangered
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Vernor VingeMots clés intelligence change flexibility
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
Vernor VingeMots clés reality free-will self-awareness neuroscience hormones
Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.
Vernor VingeMots clés assumptions mediocrity speculation
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
Vernor VingeMots clés history disasters writing-history
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Vernor VingeAll evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Vernor VingeMots clés nature good-vs-evil
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
Vernor VingeMots clés technology slavery slaves technocracy
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