I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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