Vernor Vinge Quotes
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
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There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
