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

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

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

When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."