Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

Ends the policy of catch and release at the border, requires other countries to take back their criminals.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.