100 Quotes by Vernor Vinge

So high, so low, so many things to know.

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

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.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.