Vernor Vinge > Quotes

“So much technology, so little talent.”
― Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End

“He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

“[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.”
― Vernor Vinge, True Names

“Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

“Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

“They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite what had happened, nor the result of the strivings.
"A Fire Upon the Deep”
― Vernor Vinge

“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.”
― Vernor Vinge, The Peace War

“Les enfants sont des créatures extraordinaires, quand ils ne sont pas simplement chiants.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky