I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
People think of education as something they can finish.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task – such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping – I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.
Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.
A circle has no end.