“You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?”

"I'm Too Big But I Love To Play" in Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home (1973)

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American science fiction writer 1915–1987

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