Vernor Vinge

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#insanity #war #humor

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#flexibility #intelligence #change

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#nature #nature

Les enfants sont des créatures extraordinaires, quand ils ne sont pas simplement chiants. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#intelligence #parents #intelligence

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#death #death

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#singularity #technological #will

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. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#access #achieved #communicate #every #every time

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#become #commonplace #even #ever #faster