“If the computer had been a human, its eyebrows would have raised.”

—  Robert L. Forward , book Dragon's Egg

Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 6, “Contact” Section 3 (p. 202)

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American physicist, science fiction writer 1932–2002

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