You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain t...
You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
You’ll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
Zeroth Law...
It suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of this evil into what you cal...
You can’t just move backward. You can’t push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don’t just try to ex...
You just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
Πέρασα αυτές τις δύο μέρες εξετάζοντας εντατικά τον εαυτό μου, είπε ο Κιούτι, και τα συμπεράσματα ήταν πολύ ενδιαφέροντα. Άρχισα από την μόνη βέβαιη υπόθεση που νόμιζα ότι μπορούσα να κάνω. Εγώ ο ίδιο...
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
A great many things are possible. And to himself he added: But not practical.
A horse having a wolf as a powerful and dangerous enemy lived in constant fear of his life. Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally. Whereupon he approached a man, and of...
All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answe...
Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
Author's Note: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
Because, if you stop to think of it, the three Rules of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a good many of the world’s ethical systems. Of course, every human being is supposed to have th...
But he no longer feared the fear! It was not something to run from, that fear, but something to fight.
Consider the question suitably modified.
Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano
Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for Eternity because, for some reason he did not understand (Computers might, but he himself certainly...
Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a...
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