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“Bogert is right,� said Dr. Calvin. “Ever since the Interplanetary Code was modified to allow robot models to be tested in the plants before being shipped out to space, antirobot propaganda has increased. If any word leaks out about a robot being able to read minds before we can announce complete control of the phenomenon, pretty effective capital could be made out of it.�
She was weary of repetitions, weary of circumlocutions, weary of everything.
But then, it is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.� But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
Humans are fallible, also corruptible, and ordinary mechanical devices are liable to mechanical failure.