Paul Blobel (1894–1951) German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
Source: Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 162 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.
“All machines knew what would happen to them when their masters lost faith in their infallibility.”
— Alastair Reynolds, book Absolution Gap
Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 5 (p. 75)
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