Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)

by Isaac Asimov

“Intelligence in itself isn’t much as far as survival values are concerned. The elephant makes out very poorly indeed when compared to the sparrow even though he is much more intelligent. The dog does well, under man’s protection, but not as well as the housefly against whom every human hand is raised.

There are, of course, many, many facets to the human personality and in not all of them is he superior. No one is.

‘15 model Mat-O-Mot in working order. One of the original automatics. It was the first car here.” Good old Matthew. He stayed in the garage most of the day now, but then he was the granddaddy of all positronic-motored cars.

Google car next year?

“when you’ve read all you can about the Time of Troubles, particularly about the twentieth century, nothing political can come as a real surprise.”