It's funny the respectable names you can give to superstition.

It built itself up endlessly, like a chess game, and the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer.

There's nothing like deduction. We've determined everything about our problem but the solution.

I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.

Just you think first, and don't bother to speak afterward, either.

Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.

The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Men grew desperate and the border between bitter frustration and wild destruction is sometimes easily crossed.

I don't say it was deliberate fraud. He was probably madly sincere, and sincerely mad.