At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
ISAAC ASIMOVYou 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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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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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