“All machines knew what would happen to them when their masters lost faith in their infallibility.”

“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”

“The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.”

“Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.”

“I knew enough about adults to know that if I did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway. Why would they believe me about something so unlikely?”

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”

“What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?”

“I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.”

“Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.”

“If machines knew as much about each other as we know about each other (even in our privacy), the ecology of machines would be indomitable.”