Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.