Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.
Isaac AsimovIn all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.
Isaac AsimovPart of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac AsimovYou show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
Isaac AsimovThe Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (ยฑ75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.
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