“So even in hell, there are clowns.”
Source: A Deepness in the Sky
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Famous Vernor Vinge Quotes
“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”
Source: The Children of the Sky
“Les enfants sont des créatures extraordinaires, quand ils ne sont pas simplement chiants.”
Source: A Deepness in the Sky
“So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know”
Source: A Deepness in the Sky
Source: The Children of the Sky
“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.”
Source: The Peace War
“Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.”
Source: The Children of the Sky
Source: The Children of the Sky
Source: A Deepness in the Sky
“How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?”
“The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.”
“How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.”
Source: The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
“Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.”
Source: The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Source: The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
“The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.”
Source: The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
“Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“I say, let's learn more and then speculate.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.”
Source: The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)
Source: Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.”
Source: The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)
“I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.”
Source: The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)
“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”
Source: Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“We're endangered by our own success.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“So much technology, so little talent.”
Source: Rainbow's End
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.”
“Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
Source: A Deepness in the Sky
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep