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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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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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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Pair up in threes.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
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You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.
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And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
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I would never do anything that's derogatory to women.
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
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The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
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Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.
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We’re on a journey to a heavenly home, and we need all the help we can get. Societies
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
