asimov Quotes

“All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.”

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.”

“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”