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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#terrible #unknown

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#another #choose #every #forever #must

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#far #humans #makes #maybe #never

I write music with an exclamation point! ↗

— Richard Wagner

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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#contradictions #fascinating #human #human behavior #maddening

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#changed #characters #choices #control #fates

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#immortality #me #mean #more #quality

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. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#adapt #case #faster #inventions #make