Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
ISAAC ASIMOVFeminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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