God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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

In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

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

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.

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.