John Varley

Person · Open Library

Born

9 Aug 1947

Works

123

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Berlin

Active from

2017-02-02

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

82

Total plays

2,907

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,647x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,720x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,356x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,339x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Quotes

• “I’m decrepit, but I ain’t senile.”
• “I thought his lack of curiosity must be monumental, but I was wrong. It turned out that he had some queer notions about the morality of the whole process, ideas he had gotten from some weirdly aberrant religion in his childhood. I had heard of the cult, as you can hardly avoid it if you know any history. It had said little about ethics, being more interested in arbitrary regulations.”
• “It’s unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money.”
• “There were worlds in the jewel. There was ancient Barsoom of my childhood fairy tales; there was Middle Earth with brooding castles and sentient forests. The jewel was a window on something unimaginable, a place where there were no questions and no emotions but a vast awareness.”
• “Just because Beethoven doesn’t sound like currently popular art doesn’t mean his music is worthless.”
• “Thou shalt not screw around with things you do not understand.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

varley.net

Image

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