Top 15 Vernor Vinge Quotes

So much technology, so little talent.

But see, your theory ‘explains’ all sorts of things without helping to do anything, much less providing tests for itself.

The more you realized what the stars really were, the more you realized what the universe must really be.

Yes, we did quite well. But then, telling people what they want to believe is an easy job.

The hard facts are extraordinary, without adding superstitious mumbo-jumbo.

So what do you do when your dream dies?
When your dream dies, you give it up.

What do you do when your dream dies?
Dreams die in every life. Everyone gets old. There is promise in the beginning when life seems so bright. The promise fades when the years get short.

What do you do when your dream dies?

“We think the governance has opted for ubiquitous law enforcement.”
Pham whistled softly. Now every embedded computing system, down to a child’s rattle, was a governance utility. It was the most extreme form of social control ever invented. “So now they have to run everything.” The notion was terribly seductive to the authoritarian mind.

Viki was awed by all the incredible quackery. Daddy thought such things were amusing—“like religion but not so deadly.”

This was the sort of desperate hallucination he must guard against. If you raise your desires high enough, certainty can grow out of the background noise.

There is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever.

Do you think she really believes what she's saying?"
"Sure she believes it. That's what makes her so funny.

There was an old Qeng Ho saying, “You know you’ve stayed too long when you start using the locals’ calendar.”

There had been an era of ubiquitous law enforcement, and some kind of distributed terror.