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Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.
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The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.
Isaac Asimov
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For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.'
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I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
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'Science Fiction, 1938' Nebula Winners 14 (1980) edited by Frederick J. Pohl, p. 97
Isaac Asimov -
'Reason', p. 63
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To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was 'system,' an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was 'industry,' indecision when right was 'caution,' and blind stubbornness when wrong, 'determination.'
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
Isaac Asimov
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A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.
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It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.
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'It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.'
Isaac Asimov -
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
Isaac Asimov
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A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
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The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
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Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.
Isaac Asimov -
Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.
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If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
Isaac Asimov
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Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.
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Economics is on the side of humanity now.
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The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
Isaac Asimov -
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Isaac Asimov