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

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Terms like that, “Humane Society,” are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.