Joan D. Vinge quote: "Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."

Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown
JOAN D. VINGE

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural ba...
JOAN D. VINGE

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wante...
JOAN D. VINGE

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
JOAN D. VINGE

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices...
JOAN D. VINGE

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
JOAN D. VINGE

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
JOAN D. VINGE

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
JOAN D. VINGE

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
JOAN D. VINGE

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
JOAN D. VINGE

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with...
JOAN D. VINGE

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal ...
JOAN D. VINGE

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listener...
JOAN D. VINGE

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
JOAN D. VINGE

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
JOAN D. VINGE

There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
JOAN D. VINGE

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that so...
JOAN D. VINGE

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely dispar...
JOAN D. VINGE

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same...
JOAN D. VINGE

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
JOAN D. VINGE

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
JOAN D. VINGE

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our si...
JOAN D. VINGE

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the mo...
JOAN D. VINGE

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or so...
JOAN D. VINGE

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our per...
JOAN D. VINGE

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotom...
JOAN D. VINGE

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
JOAN D. VINGE

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
JOAN D. VINGE

Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches mea...
JOAN D. VINGE

Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no mat...
JOAN D. VINGE

[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, an...
JOAN D. VINGE

How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!
JOAN D. VINGE

There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and ...
JOAN D. VINGE

You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away.
JOAN D. VINGE

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for ju...
JOAN D. VINGE

All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, ...
JOAN D. VINGE

Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving... and that makes all the diff...
JOAN D. VINGE

I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the...
JOAN D. VINGE

Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness.
JOAN D. VINGE

It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
JOAN D. VINGE

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Lov...
JOAN D. VINGE

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.
JOAN D. VINGE

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?"

"Indifference." Jerusha surprised ...
JOAN D. VINGE

Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening th...
JOAN D. CHITTISTER

Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to ...
JOAN D. CHITTISTER

It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go...
JOAN D. CHITTISTER

Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. I...
JOAN D. CHITTISTER

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadl...
VERNOR VINGE

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

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its develope...
VERNOR VINGE

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

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do...
VERNOR VINGE

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in som...
VERNOR VINGE

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI proj...
VERNOR VINGE

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algor...
VERNOR VINGE

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
VERNOR VINGE

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
VERNOR VINGE

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Eart...
VERNOR VINGE

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I we...
VERNOR VINGE

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that ...
VERNOR VINGE

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

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and ...
VERNOR VINGE

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

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

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profo...
VERNOR VINGE

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage...
VERNOR VINGE

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
VERNOR VINGE

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
VERNOR VINGE

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
VERNOR VINGE

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequ...
VERNOR VINGE

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
VERNOR VINGE

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
VERNOR VINGE

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only f...
VERNOR VINGE

Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws,...
VERNOR VINGE

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
VERNOR VINGE

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daf...
VERNOR VINGE

Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.
VERNOR VINGE

Ty or Ra or Thect
VERNOR VINGE

Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.
VERNOR VINGE

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Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion ...
D. D. FIELD

Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine...
D. D. WILLIAMS

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 In short: in all his ways and walks, whether as touch...
D. D. WILLIAMS

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, ...
JOAN RIVERS

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and ...
JOAN SMALLS

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it fro...
JOAN DIDION

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
JOAN MIRO

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
JOAN RIVERS

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
JOAN RIVERS

Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. I...
JOAN RIVERS

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
JOAN RIVERS

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
JOAN RIVERS

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
JOAN RIVERS

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
JOAN RIVERS

I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a par...
JOAN RIVERS

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the ...
JOAN RIVERS

I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
JOAN RIVERS

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the w...
JOAN RIVERS

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That...
JOAN RIVERS

Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
JOAN SMALLS

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
JOAN DIDION

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting ...
JOAN DIDION

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it ...
JOAN RIVERS

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death inte...
JOAN BAEZ

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
JOAN GREENWOOD

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, ...
JOAN JETT

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, t...
JOAN JETT

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just r...
JOAN CUSACK

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is go...
JOAN DIDION

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS

I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th...
JOAN HICKSON

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
JOAN BAEZ

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad ...
JOAN BLADES

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
JOAN LARSEN

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organiz...
JOAN BAEZ

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can ...
JOAN RIVERS

Writers are always selling somebody out.
JOAN DIDION

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON

Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to...
JOAN SMITH

Jesus
JOAN DIDION

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN

I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, ...
JOAN DIDION

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
JOAN DIDION

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not th...
JOAN DIDION

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them att...
JOAN DIDION

If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
JOAN BORYSENKO

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live no...
JOAN BAEZ

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
JOAN RIVERS

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
JOAN RIVERS

Can we talk?
JOAN RIVERS

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
JOAN GILBERTSON

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have ev...
JOAN DIDION

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soo...
JOAN DIDION

The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the res...
JOAN BORYSENKO

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look...
JOAN BORYSENKO

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing ...
JOAN BAEZ

All serious daring starts from within.
JOAN BAEZ

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europ...
JOAN DIDION

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the u...
JOAN DIDION

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
JOAN BORYSENKO

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended a...
JOAN DIDION

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we share...
JOAN DIDION

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that ...
JOAN DIDION

According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean any...
JOAN COLLINS

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you...
JOAN SUTHERLAND

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
JOAN BAEZ

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organizat...
JOAN BAEZ

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
JOAN DIDION

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all...
JOAN RIVERS

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexua...
JOAN DIDION

Death affords those who are left an opportunity to reevaluate everything. And though we would give a...
JOAN BORDOW

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?
JOAN MANLEY

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
JOAN BAEZ

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
He approached the fi...
JOAN BORYSENKO

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect sp...
JOAN DIDION

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
JOAN RIVERS

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] sp...
JOAN KONNER

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. W...
JOAN DIDION

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from whi...
JOAN DIDION

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
JOAN BAEZ

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
JOAN DIDION

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid f...
JOAN RIVERS

No woman has an abortion for fun.
JOAN SMITH

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw fro...
JOAN LUNDEN

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh...
JOAN KIRNER

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go th...
JOAN JETT

The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords ...
JOAN LINGARD

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. T...
JOAN CUSACK

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
JOAN CRAWFORD

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just ...
JOAN DIDION

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
JOAN BLADES

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
JOAN CHEN

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's ...
JOAN CUSACK

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate...
JOAN DIDION

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want...
JOAN JETT

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as so...
JOAN CUSACK

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds ...
JOAN RIVERS

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the wor...
JOAN CUSACK

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It'...
JOAN JETT

My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times...
JOAN SMALLS

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
JOAN LUNDEN

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...
JOAN DIDION

I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...
JOAN RIVERS

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wi...
JOAN COLLINS

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

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