Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.

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

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

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

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.