Computerization eliminates the middleman

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.