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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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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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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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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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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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I'm really disappointed that they did not make it.
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The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.
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I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.
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I'll try anything once.
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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.
