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• Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

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  Kids, Serious Business, Remember

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• Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

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  Writing, Science, Love Is

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• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

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  Memories, Adhesive

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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• If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

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  Thinking, Unjust, Unreasonable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.77, Spectra

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• 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.

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  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

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  Children, Real, Educational

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

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  Mind, Invention, Humans

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• It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

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  Flower, Writing, Imagination

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

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  Strong, Philosophical, Army

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• Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.8, Spectra

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• The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

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  Writing, Rabbits, Firsts

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• The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

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  Order, Law, Long

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “In memory yet green: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954”, Doubleday Books

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• If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

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  Greed, Too Much, Asks

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• Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

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  Fear, Atheism, Outsiders

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

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  Thinking, Individual, Easier

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• Finished products are for decadent minds.

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  Mind, Products, Finished

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.67, Spectra

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• Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

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  Robots, Common, Existence

  "Visit to the World's Fair of 2014" by Isaac Asimov, archive.nytimes.com. August 16, 1964.

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• Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

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  Art, Data, Work Out

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

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  Wall, Loneliness, Men

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• Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

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  Gains, Forbidden, All Time

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.242, Spectra

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• When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

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  Heaven, Religion, Atheism

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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  Dream, Religious, Atheist

  "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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• People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

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  Science, Hands, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• ... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

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  Robots, Humans, Differentiate

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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• What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

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  Jobs, Laughter, Pain

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