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The Isaac Asimov Quotebook Search hundreds of pages of The Thunder Child for practically any science fiction topic you're looking for. Your search results will open in a new window. If you don't find what you're looking for, you can also search the web.   Web thethunderchild.com Searching! Searching! Searching! Compiled by Averil Chase Return to the ASIMOV QUOTES INDEX Asimov on Science and Science Fiction: [Books][Coining Terms] [Eye Sci Fi][Science Fiction][Science and Technology] [SF Writers][Superman] Asimov on Everything Else: [Asimov] [Education] [the Future] [Myth and Religion] [People] [Shakespeare] [Time] [Writing] Coining Terms Suppose, then, we invent a word to cover all the ways in which living things might behave in such a way to meet a challenge or to promote survival. Call it "zorking." Thinking, in the human sense, might be one form of zorking, while other species of living things might display other forms of zorking. Computers won't zork, perhaps, in a fashion that any biological species will, so we need a new word for what they do, too. In my impromptu talk at the computer force, I used the word "grotch" and I suppose that will do as well as any other. "More Thinking About Thinking," Magazine of F & SF, November 1983 The Subatomic Monster, pg. 137, 138 All quotes maintain their original copyright and are presented here for research, reference and review. Click on the icons for new features in The Thunder Child. Radiation Theater: 1950s Sci Fi Movies Discussion Boards The Sand Rock Sentinel: Ripped From the Headlines of 1950s Sci Fi Films

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