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" I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. "

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" From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. "

" To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. "

" The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. "

" There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. "

" If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "

" Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. "

" It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. "

" Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. "

" 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. "

" Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. "

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

" Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. "

" All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. "

" Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. "

" Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. "

" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. "

" I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. "

" Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. "

" I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. "

" It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

" He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. "

" When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. "

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

" I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. "

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

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" It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. "