Scientist

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Robot tidak boleh melukai manusia, atau, karena tidak ada tindakan, membiarkan manusia terluka.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Kegembiraan sejati ada saat mencari tahu daripada mengetahui.

Kekerasan adalah perlindungan terakhir dari yang tidak kompeten.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

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

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.