Vernor Vinge Quotes

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

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• I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Information
  • Patient
  • Protected

• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Research
  • Point

• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!

  

  Randee Heller
  • Cinderella
  • Emmy

• I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Research
  • Injury
  • Box

• I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Tax
  • Unfair
  • Immoral

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Picture
  • Techniques
  • Fashions

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Record
  • Boring

• I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Convinced

• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• South Central is just who I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • South Central

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Read
  • Modern
  • Novels

• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • United States
  • Iraq

• There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Winning
  • Prize
  • Magical

• Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship - it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.

  

  Molly Bloom
  • Working
  • Differences
  • Because

• It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Story
  • Sad
  • Relationships

• Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Out
  • Computing

• It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Passion
  • Decision
  • Debate

• Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Research
  • Ignored
  • Proposing