Vernor Vinge Quotes
The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination rules the world.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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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.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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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.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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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.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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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.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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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.
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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.
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
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I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.
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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
