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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"

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."

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

"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."

"All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men."

"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."

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

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

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

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

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."

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