This was the sort of desperate hallucination he must guard … - Vernor Vinge

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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.

Vernor Vinge

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Vernor Vinge (October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) was a computer scientist and science fiction author, as well as a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics.

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Birth Name: Vernor Steffen Vinge

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That was the old saying: Once your secret is outed anywhere, however briefly, it is outed forever. “Oh, I don’t know,” said Juan. “The way to cover a slip is to embellish it, hide it in all sorts of fake secrets.”

They’re very good at reaching nonsense conclusions from insufficient information.

Funny how the least attempt at deception always seems to make life more complicated.

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