Vernor Vinge Quotes
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
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I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting – to non-objective creation.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
