Vernor Vinge People Quotations

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

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.