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“Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.”
― The Andromeda Strain
― The Andromeda Strain
“In his blackest hours, Stone doubted the utility of all thought, and all intelligence. There were times he envied the laboratory rats he worked with; their brains were so simple. Certainly, they did not have the intelligence to destroy themselves; that was a peculiar invention of man.”
― The Andromeda Strain
― The Andromeda Strain
“Paper is more patient than man.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.”
― The Andromeda Strain
― The Andromeda Strain
“When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about
sentiment.”
― And Then There Were None
sentiment.”
― And Then There Were None
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