The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.' - Isaac Asimov

It merely required the use of that much-neglected commodity — common sense. You see, there is a branch of human knowledge known as symbolic logic, which can be used to prune away all sorts of clogging deadwood that clutters up human language.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Harlan gazed at Noÿs and his thoughts wound tightly about her. What would she