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"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too."	Economics, Hope
"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."	Economics, Hope
"To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult."	Animals
"Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."	Comedy, Goals
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."	Science
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."	Writing
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."	Science
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."	Success, Life
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."	God, Computers
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."	Anti-Religion, Violence
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."	Writing
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