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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."
"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."
"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."
"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
"The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field."
"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
Explore more quotes by Isaac Asimov
"What's exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there's now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it's time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There's only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it."
"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
"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."
"The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship."
"It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong."
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
"I shall not be alive a half decade hence, said Seldon, "and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we refer by the term, 'man."
"And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile - except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison."
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