Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Isaac Asimov – Life is pleasant
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers…and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn’t even ask for erasers.
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You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Isaac Asimov – Part of the inhumanity
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly it is completely honestIsaac Asimov – Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka’ (I found it) but ‘That’s funny …’
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Isaac Asimov – Science is a mechanism
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
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