Isaac Asimov Quotes
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.
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Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It may take time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practising. So practise. You may get depressed, but its evidence that you are doing good.
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I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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I think I shall try to take up climbing professionally. It’s something I love, and I think I am good at, even if it does not lead very far.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
