Vernor Vinge Quotes

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

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• Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Taxes
  • Legal
  • Collecting

• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • She
  • Book
  • Reality

• I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Team
  • Record
  • Earn

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Good
  • God
  • Blessed

• Life is too short to be on a diet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Life Is Too Short

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

  

  Ovid
  • U.S.
  • Striving
  • Forbidden

• Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Health
  • Look
  • Elegance

• A girl can never have too many lipstick options!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Girl
  • Lipstick
  • Options

• I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!

  

  Adam Green
  • Up
  • Work
  • Seasons

• Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Man

• It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Business
  • Freedom
  • Me

• Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Important
  • Me
  • Preservation

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Day
  • Pain

• Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Secret
  • Actions
  • Motives

• I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

  

  Harry Triguboff
  • Time
  • Money
  • Politics

• I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • True
  • Miracle

• One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Religion
  • Century
  • Phenomena

• Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police officer in need of assistance could find a telephone link to Scotland Yard, a dry space to do “paperwork” and, in certain extreme cases, a life of adventure through space and time.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Technology
  • Telephone
  • Police Officer

• Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

  

  Vernor Vinge