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

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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. "

" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. "

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

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

" If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "

" The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. "

" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

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

" Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' "

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

" To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. "

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

" 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. "

" Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. "

" There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. 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 democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. "

" 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. "