“I know they can’t help being young, but isn’t there something they can do about being so stupid?”

—  Robert Sheckley

“I reckon not, Mr. Washburn,” Curly says.

The Never-Ending Western Movie (p. 119)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

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