“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“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… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
