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The woman placed a hand over her racing heart. She was already starting to feel anger and anxiety, but she assumed that was due to her frustration with Khnum. “I’m not going to kill anyone,” she insisted. “You will.”


“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot

“And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer--by demonstration--would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.
The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
And there was light--”
― Robot Dreams
The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
And there was light--”
― Robot Dreams

“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation

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