Top 22 Quotes by Vernor Vinge

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.