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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

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

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.