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
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. — 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
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
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment… — 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
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully,… — 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
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
“The robot had no feelings, only positronic surges that mimicked those feelings. (And perhaps human beings had no feelings, only neuronic surges… — 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
“Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The trouble with you, Peter, is that when you think of a witness to a planetological statement, you think of planetologists. You… — 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
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics,” and here they are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate… — 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
“Because, if you stop to think of it, the three Rules of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a good many… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“If, by virtue of the Second Law, we can demand of any robot unlimited obedience in all respects not involving harm to… — 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
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