"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."

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Vernor Vinge

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“I really enjoy the darker side of things. It's the type of work that I like to watch. I know some actors feel fearful of how they'll be viewed. But invariably, I find dark material can be very, very rewarding to inhabit and investigate.”
“Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.”
“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”
“People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!”
“There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.”
“'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.”
“I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.”

Source : The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey (1918). “A Study in English Metrics”

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