Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 7, “Interaction” Section 6 (p. 255)
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Robert L. ForwardFamous Robert L. Forward Quotes
“If the computer had been a human, its eyebrows would have raised.”
Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 6, “Contact” Section 3 (p. 202)
“No data is preferable to poor data.”
Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 2, “Pulsar” Section 3 (p. 26)
Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 1, “Prologue” Section 4 (p. 7)