Vernor Vinge Quotes

The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.

Vernor Vinge

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• Imagination rules the world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Rules

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parents

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Like
  • Feel

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Job
  • Weird

• There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Story
  • Should
  • Often

• There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • True

• I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • My Life

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Wife

• My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Hobbies

• My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Driving
  • Hollywood
  • Abilities

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Tired
  • Murder

• Industry's responsibilities broaden. Its leaders must develop an enlightened and militant statesmanship, for progress in the solution of these problems is vital. If this responsibility is not assumed and discharged from within industry, it is bound to be superimposed from without.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Responsibility
  • Progress

• There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Freedom
  • Progress
  • Transformation

• What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Progress
  • Sin

• The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Progress