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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.

Vernor Vinge

Intelligence

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

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

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

Joan D. Vinge

Time

Behavior

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time

Will

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

Time

Friend

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Gore Vidal

Time

Man

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.