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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#girl #moon #naive #native #out

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#because #certain #need #over #people

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#closed system #collapse #ecosystem #gas #our

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #designed #environment #intervals #long

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#developers #even #most #naturally #proceeding

All the cameras shifted from the players to me. ↗

— Lesley Visser

#me #players #shifted

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#human #human race #physical #possibility #race

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. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind