"Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things."

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Source : "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Article for the VISION-21 Symposium, edoras.sdsu.edu. 1993.

Vernor Vinge

#Avalanches Quotes #Small Things Quotes

“The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.”

Source : "Fictional character: Thomas Jerome Newton". "The Man Who Fell to Earth", www.imdb.com. March 18, 1976.
“It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.”
“Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.”
“I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one.”
“We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.”
“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”
“Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.”
“Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.”

Source : "Showbuzz/ Queen honors 007 (Roger Moore) and Tom Jones". www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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