Vernor Vinge Quotes

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.

- Vernor Vinge

Tags

Began | Writing | Science | Fiction | Middle |

comments powered by Disqus

Random

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? - Vernor Vinge

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. - Vernor Vinge

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. - Vernor Vinge