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« Johnson, he says, returns unexpectedly from a business trip and finds his wife in the arms of his best friend. He steps back and exclaims, "Max! I'm married to the lady, so I have to. But you, why? »
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The robot that dreamed |
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« This, he says, is an archaic detail in this computerized world of the 21st century: a human secretary. But perhaps it was normal for such an institution to survive in the heart of the citadel of computerization; in the gigantic global organization that manipulated Multivac. With Multivac blocking all horizons, smaller computers, for mundane tasks, would be in bad taste. »
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Isaac Asimov
The robot that dreamed |
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The robot that dreamed
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« His forehead bore the deep furrows of uncertainty and, on the whole, his soul as an employee had never been seduced by the thought that he was born to be great or that he could become great under any circumstances. He had a wife, a job and a little girl and, except in extraordinary conditions of joy or depression, he was inclined to consider that he had not made too bad a deal with life. »
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The robot that dreamed |
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Isaac Asimov
The robot that dreamed
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