Joan D. Vinge

Quotes

• “I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there wit...”
• “We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as ...”
• “To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what y...”
• “But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help ...”
• “[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder...”
• “Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.”
• “Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.”
• “How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!”
• “Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.”