Vernor Vinge Quotes

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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• I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • Research
  • Medical

• I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Running
  • Me

• I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Balance
  • Financial

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Why
  • Want
  • Cancer

• The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Me
  • Group
  • Thank You

• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • School
  • High
  • Kid

• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Future
  • Vision

• Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Hero
  • Guitar

• I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Decision
  • Always
  • Evolving

• Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Environment

• I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Military
  • Animals

• In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Faith
  • Understand
  • Changed

• I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Right
  • Healthy
  • Possible

• Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have seen firsthand how this community has helped drive our economy forward through hard work and ingenuity.

  

  Nydia Velazquez
  • Jobs
  • Communities
  • Commerce

• ‘Aren’t people funny? I don’t find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,’ lied the Princess.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • People
  • Funny
  • Princess

• If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Character
  • Jesus

• Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Think

• The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Human
  • Race
  • Extinction