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" I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. "

Isaac Asimov

Life

Think

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" People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. "

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" 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. "

" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

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

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" I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. "

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" No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. "

" I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. "

" Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. "

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" Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

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

" And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. "

" He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. "

" From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. "

" The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. "

" Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. "

" To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. "

" John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

" It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. "

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" There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. "

" Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. "

" When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. "

" It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

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

" It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. "

" It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. "