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

—Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov ( AZ-im-ov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited...

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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

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

—Isaac Asimov

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success—but only if you persist.

—Isaac Asimov

Life is just one damned thing after another.

—Isaac Asimov

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

—Isaac Asimov

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

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Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

—H. Mumford Jones

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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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