Joan D. Vinge Quotes

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

If I could only live another century!

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.