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Quote #10
"Every action by any executive which does not follow the exact directions of the Machine he is working with becomes part of the data for the next problem. … The Machine knows, Stephen!" (Evitable Conflict.208)
Calvin lays out for Byerley how the Machines cannot be fooled—any time a human disobeys the Machine, the Machine takes that into account. The Machines may be the perfect administrators because they take everything into account, like the most brilliant scientists. In a way, the Machines have to be human psychologists, just like human Calvin has to be a robot psychologist.