Vernor Vinge Quotes
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all-no one’s around to write horror stories.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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For my part, he was God's candidate.
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As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.
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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
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i think our desires to put in music that we like and want to do in our albums are stronger than being conscious of the public's eyes or ears. That's why we're learning bit by bit with each new album. Although our music charts rankings are quite low, rankings and money aren't important in music.
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That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all-no one’s around to write horror stories.
