# Quote — John Brunner, Stand On Zanzibar

> Bathed in his currents of liquid helium, self-contained, immobile, vastly well informed by every mechanical sense: Shalmaneser.
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> Every now and again there passes through his circuits a pulse which carries the cybernetic equivalent of the phrase, “Christ, what an imagination I’ve got.“

- Author: [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md)
- Book: [Stand On Zanzibar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/stand-on-zanzibar.md)
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## More from this book

> LOGIC   The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: “I can’t so you musn’t,” and “I can but you musn’t.”

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> Isn’t it typical? We train one man—one ordinary, inoffensive, retiring little man—to be an efficient killing machine and he kills the one person who stood a chance of saving us from ourselves!

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> What in God’s name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

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