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"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."
Writing
"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."
Books
"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
Movies
"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
Reading
"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."
Reading
"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."
Environment
"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."
Time
"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."
Writing
"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
Reading
"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."
Science
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
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"Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers."
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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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"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."
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"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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