You don't understand what I'm saying, do you? Or do you? I think you do. You know what power ideas have, and you don't have a lot of faith in the abi… - Isaac Asimov
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You don't understand what I'm saying, do you? Or do you? I think you do. You know what power ideas have, and you don't have a lot of faith in the ability of humans to tell a good idea from a bad one. Well, neither do I, sometimes. But in the long run the bad idea will perish. That's been the story of human civilization for thousands of years. The good does prevail sooner or later, no matter what horrors have happened along the way. And so it's wrong to suppress an idea that may have value to the world. [ — Look, Andrew: you're probably the closest thing to a human being that has ever come out of the factories of U. S. Robots and Mechanical Men. You're uniquely equipped to tell the world what it needs to know about the human0robot relationship, because in some ways you partake of the nature of each. And so you may help to heal that relationship, which even at this late date is still a very troubled one. Write your book. Write it honestly.
Isaac Asimov (c. 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American biochemist who was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his works include the Foundation series and I, Robot.
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But, tell me, how would you get us out of our present mess?" "Your present mess. I had nothing to do with it." "Consider the question suitably modified.
Yıllar önce Isaac bir mektubında Lili adlı sinema filmini izlediğini ve hayali bale sahnesinde ağladığını yazmıştı: "Beni niye ağlattığını biliyorum. Bu, aynı hayat gibi, insanlar birer birer giderler ve sen onları uğurlarsın, ta ki bir gün sıra sana gelene ve başkaları seni uğurlayana kadar. Sanırım burada önemli olan Carpe Diem - günü yakalamak - sonra geçip gitmesine izin vermektir"
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