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 ASIMOVThere are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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