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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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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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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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.
