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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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The media is controlled.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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A girl can never have too many lipstick options!
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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!
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
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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.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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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.
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
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Pair up in threes.
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Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
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Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
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God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us...I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God...We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
