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Letter "I" » Isaac Asimov Quotes
«University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ask for, department, departments, Department of, department of mathematics, department of philosophy, equipment, eraser, erasers, expensive, paper money, physicist, physicists, President, require, university
«It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
especially, most especially, obvious, pays, reputation, subtleties, subtlety
«True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.»
«What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
corpus, dozen, duplicate, duplicated, duplicates, duplicating, in parallel, paralleled, quantity, remembered, robotics, surpassed, The Foundation, The three, trilogy, variety
«A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [The First Law of Robotics]»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
First Law, inaction, injure, robot, robotics, robots
«Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Competence,
Violence
| Keywords:
incompetent, incompetents, refuge
«A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. [The Zeroth Law of Robotics]»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
inaction, injure, robot, robotics, robots, zeroth
«Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
career, disciplinary, hanging, incorrigible, My school, occasionally, school teacher, talked, The Teacher, turned out
«A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. [The Third Law of Robotics]»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
as such, conflict, protection, robot, robotics, robots, Second law, second law of, The Third
«How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!»
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