Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.


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RAY BRADBURY
Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am de...
RAY BRADBURY
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
RAY KROC
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n...
RAY BRADBURY
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessi...
MAN RAY
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
RAY KROC
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
RAY KNIGHT
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
RAY PRINCE
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
RAY KROC
If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
RAY FLOYD
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kind...
RANDOLPH RAY
There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain...
RAY CHARLES
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo...
RAY BRADBURY
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher.
Space travel has again made children of u...
RAY BRADBURY
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
RAY BRADBURY
Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're ...
RAY KROC
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to ...
RAY BRADBURY
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every nigh...
RAY BRADBURY
When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have ba...
RAY BRADBURY
A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute brawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together...
RAY BRADBURY
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to lov...
RAY BRADBURY
Hell is paved with good intentions.
JOHN RAY
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n...
RAY BRADBURY
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The...
RAY BRADBURY
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
RAY BRADBURY
We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool ...
RAY BRADBURY
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a paint...
RAY BRADBURY
Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. ...
RAY BRADBURY
The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people r...
RAY BRADBURY
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's mor...
RAY BRADBURY
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
RAY KROC
We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves ove...
RAY BRADBURY