"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."
― Vernor Vinge
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Science
More From Vernor Vinge
- "But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."
- "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
- "When I began writing science fiction in the middle ’60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
More In Science
- "Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible."― Sydney Smith
- "My sense of religion is Einstein’s sense of relativity. I don’t believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus."― Mandy Patinkin
- "But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history."― Thomas Lynch