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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.


To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.


A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.


To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.


He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.


I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.


From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.


It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.


I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.


Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.


Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.


Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.


If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.


I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.


When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.


If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.


Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.


It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.


Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.


I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.