100 Quotes by Vernor Vinge

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.