Quotes by Murray Leinster

We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.

You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only its got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get. Its hooked in to the tank, which has the Carson Circuit all fixed up with relays. Say you punch Station SNAFU on your logic. Relays in the tank take over an whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin comes on your logics screen. Or you punch Sally Hancocks Phone an the screen blinks an sputters an youre hooked up with the logic in her house an if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if you punch for the weather forecast or who won todays race at Hialeah or who was mistress of the White House durin Garfields administration or what is PDQ and R sellin for today, that comes on the screen too. The relays in the tank do it. The tank is a big buildin full of all the facts in creation an all the recorded telecasts that ever was made—an its hooked in with all the other tanks all over the country—an everything you wanna know or see or hear, you punch for it an you get it. Very convenient. Also it does math for you, an keeps books, an acts as consultin chemist, physicist, astronomer, an tea-leaf reader, with a Advice to the Lovelorn thrown in. The only thing it wont do is tell you exactly what your wife meant when she said, Oh, you think so, do you? in that peculiar kinda voice. Logics dont work good on women. Only on things that make sense. (1949)