"I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones."

“Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.”

“There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling”

“Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.257, Hachette UK

“Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.”

“There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.”

“One man's constant is another man's variable.”

Source : Alan J. Perlis (1975). “Introduction to computer science”

“I always believed in my characters. I lived them”

“I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com