“We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.”

“The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. ”

“You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

“The robot said, 'I have been trying, friend Julius, to understand some remarks Elijah made to me earlier. Perhaps I am beginning to, for it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of thi sevil into what you call good.' He hesitated, then, almost as though he were surprised at his own owrds, he said, 'Go, and sin no more!”

“Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.”

“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”

“you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”