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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."
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"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."
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"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."
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"We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable."
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"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants."
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"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now."
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"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."
Computer
"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction."
Science
"That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens."
World
"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want."
Science
"I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction."
Science
"Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great)."
Science
"It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations."
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"A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas."
Time
"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research."
Science
"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method."
Science
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