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To: Cvengr
"We can't find Phil"

Phil irritated a human and was told to "Get lost!". He's only following instructions.

(Little Lost Robot, Isaac Asimov, 1947)

2 posted on 03/03/2006 6:35:15 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

"I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?"

---from Leo Bulero in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), who, in the memo to his employees that serves as the frontispiece to that novel, gruffly affirms the human spirit


6 posted on 03/03/2006 6:45:36 AM PST by Cvengr (<;^))
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Top-of-the-line voice software loaded with data from Dick's vast body of writing allows the robot to carry on natural-sounding conversations, although it does come off as a bit doddering at times.

Well there's your clue right there. He's not lost, he's become a politician (Republican or Democrat). Search Washington DC

8 posted on 03/03/2006 6:47:40 AM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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