Vernor Vinge: Quotes about time

Vernor Vinge is American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on time.
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“And now each second was as long as all the time before.”

Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)

Prologue (p. 4).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Context: The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.

“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”

Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)

Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 41 (p. 580).

“We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.”

Vernor Vinge

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)