Computers Quotes by Isaac Asimov

20 Computers quotes by Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov imagined the future of computing long before it arrived. These 20 excerpts weave together his scientific curiosity and narrative flair.

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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

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The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they…

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The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human…

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“I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty…

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We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear…

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Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never…

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

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Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack…

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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are…

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With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely,…

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Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which…

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In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines…

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The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has…

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“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal…

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In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite…

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It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have…

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“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with…

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“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting…

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“the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling…

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“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!”

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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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“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is…

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“temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus”

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“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being…

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“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted”

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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and…

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There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be…

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A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law…

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