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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."

"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."

"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."

"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."

"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling."
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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."

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

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

"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."

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."

"To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult."

"I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done."
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