Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth… — 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
“Right! Not that I particularly like having a robot tell me my job, nor that I think he can do it!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the… — 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
What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work,… — 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 it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know-even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction-than to gain eternal life at… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
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
