Quotes – Page 8

Why should a difference in a word make any difference to the thing described?

Not all that is permitted is admired.

Anything could be found in figures if the search was long enough and hard enough and if the proper pieces of information were ignored or overlookeed.

Viewing is no substitute for seeing

I have not always found human behavior logical -

We need three laws of our own - but I'm glad we don't have them.

A child is disciplined for its own future good. Isn't that the theory?

Robots tend to displace human labor. The robot economy moves only in one direction. More robots and fewer humans. I've studied population data very carefully and I've plotted it and made a few extrapolations.

The robot-human ratio in any economy that has accepted robot labor tends continously to increase despite any laws that are passed to prevent it. The increase is slowed, but never stopped.

At first the human population increases, but the robot population increases much more quickly.

Then after a certain critical point is reached, the human population actually begins to decline.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue happiness.

As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more.

Culture dictates invention.

Any world is queer to people who don't live on it.

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them