Me. Now you know who he is – and after you think it over you’ll know who you are… and if you think hard enough, you’ll figure out who the baby is… and who I am. — He didn’t answer, he was badly shaken. It’s a shock to have it proved to you that you [...]
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The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect — but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.
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Hardin answered, half in reverie: “Yes, I never completed my studies, though. I got tired of theory. I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing — I went into politics. It’s practically the same thing.
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He is a very clever politician and politicians by the very nature of their work must have an instinctive feeling for the truths of psychohistory.
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The Apollo astronauts had already seen the film when they left for the Moon. The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas 1968 became the first men ever to set eyes upon the lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large, black monolith: alas, discretion prevailed… [...]
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I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The rain in Spain is mainly in the plain. Dave – are you still there? Did you know that the square root [...]
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“I think there’s been a failure in the pod-bay doors,” Hal remarked conversationally. “Lucky you weren’t killed.
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Hal (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough. These seemed to occur at intervals of twenty years, and the thought that another one was now imminent already worried a great many people.
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When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship’s information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need [...]
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