Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response - Isaac Asimov

By saving the knowledge of the race. The sum of human knowing is beyond any one man; any thousand men. With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know. They will be helpless and useless by themselves. The bits of lore, meaningless, will not be passed on. They will be lost through the generations. But, if we now prepare a giant summary of all knowledge, it will never be lost. Coming generations will build on it, and will not have to rediscover it for themselves. One millennium will do the work of thirty thousand.

Era um grande acréscimo à vida de Harlan. Ter alguém com quem conversar, com quem falar sobre sua vida, seus feitos e pensamentos. Era como se ela fosse uma parte dele, mas uma parte suficientemente separada para exigir a fala como comunicação, em vez do pensamento. Era uma parte suficientemente separada para ser capaz de responder de maneira imprevista, por meio de processos racionais independentes.

The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!