Quotes by Vernor Vinge

A minority felt that the largest 1992 computers were within three orders of magnitude of the power of the human brain. (Vernor Vinge)

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think Id be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. (Vernor Vinge)

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. (Vernor Vinge)

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. (Vernor Vinge)

Computer networks and human-computer interfaces seem more mundane than AI, and yet they could lead to the Singularity. (Vernor Vinge)

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. (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. (Vernor Vinge)

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. (Vernor Vinge)

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. (Vernor Vinge)

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