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Sure, we’re intelligent, but what’s intelligence? We think it is important because we have it.
you can’t fight a tremendous, emotion filled drive with cold mathematics. This man Hilder has invented a name, ‘Wasters.’ Slowly he has built this name up into a gigantic conspiracy; a gang of brutal, profit-seeking wretches raping Earth for their own immediate benefit. “He has accused the government of being riddled with them, the Assembly of being dominated by them, the press of being owned by them. None of this, unfortunately, seems ridiculous to the average man. He knows all too well what selfish men can do to Earth’s resources. He knows what happened to Earth’s oil during the Time of
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A ship that can navigate space without a computer on board can be constructed in one-fifth the time and at one-tenth the expense of a computer-laden ship.
“And I see something even beyond this. It may be fantastic now; a mere dream; but in the future I see the manned missile!”
“If you really thought,” she said, “as often as you say ‘I think’ you wouldn’t be so perennially uncertain.
