“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”

“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.”

“I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.”

“Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.”

“They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.”

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”