#mp

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

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

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#change #comparable #earth #edge #human

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

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#competition #deadly #evolutionary #humans #light

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#asking #coming #competition #eliminated #feel

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #connection #give #hard #hope

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts. ↗

— Richard Virenque

#i #important #points #score #them

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ↗

— David Viscott

#diversions #empty #entertaining #fill #life