“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.””

—  Isaac Asimov , book I, Robot

“Catch That Rabbit”, p. 65
I, Robot (1950)

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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