"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

I just wanted to comment on this quote. Maybe the line between things that are alive and things that are not alive is that living things act purposefully to their own advantage, whereas things that are not alive are too simple to do so or simply aren't working correctly.

Isaac Asimov Quotations - The Quotations Page