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"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
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"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer."
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"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."
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"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
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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."
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"The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring."
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"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
Computer
"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
"I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time."
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"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research."
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"I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction."
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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."
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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction."
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"In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it."
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