A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

by Vernor Vinge

‘Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever’

But what do you do when your new creations may be smarter than you are?

‘Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood … and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.’

What gruesome irony that even the greatest disasters can create opportunities for decent people.

being so far beyond her that only its indifference could protect her.

He had a sudden insight, something that many adults in technical cultures never attain.

All evil and good is petty before Nature.

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.

What matter a suicide mission within a suicide mission?

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