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| fablonsky smiled, quite unexpectedly, his dark eyes sparkling behind the crinkling of the lower lids. | Яблонский неожиданно улыбнулся, блеснув темными глазами. |
| "Three times a report was brought me about unauthorized uses of the Annex, and I let it go each time. | - Три раза мне докладывали о незарегистрированном использовании Мультивака, и я закрывал на это глаза. |
| If it had mattered, I would have followed it up and spotted you, John, and found out what you were doing. But, of course, nothing about Multivac mattered in those days, so you got away with it." | Ведь все, что касалось гигантской машины, в те дни не имело никакого значения. |
| "What do you mean, nothing mattered?" asked Henderson, suspiciously. | - То есть как? - опешил Гендерсон. |
| "Nothing did. | - Да-да. |
| I suppose if I had told you this at the time, it would have spared you your agony, but then if you had told me what you were doing, it would have spared me mine. | Я молчал по той же причине, что и ты, Джон. |
| What made you think Multivac was in working order, whatever the data you supplied it?" | Вообще - с чего вы взяли, что Мультивак был исправен? |
| "Not in working order?" said Swift. | - Как, он не был исправен? - спросил Свифт. |
| "Not really. | - Правильнее сказать, был не совсем исправен. |
| Not reliably. | Просто на него нельзя было положиться. |
| After all, where were my technicians in the last years of the war? | В конце концов, где находились мои техники в последние годы? |
| I'll tell you, they were feeding computers on a thousand different space devices. | Обслуживали компьютеры на тысячах всевозможных космических объектов. |
| They were gone! | Для меня они пропали! |
| I had to make do with kids I couldn't trust and veterans who were out-of-date. | Остались зеленые юнцы и безбожно отставшие ветераны. |
| Besides, do you think I could trust the solid-state components coming out of Cryogenics in the last years? Cryogenics wasn't any better placed as far as personnel was concerned than I was. | Кроме того, я не мог доверять компонентам, поставляемым "Криогеникс", - у них с персоналом обстояло еще хуже. |
| To me, it didn't matter whether the data being supplied Multivac were reliable or not. | Так что, насколько верной была вводимая в Мультивак информация, значения не имело. |
| The results weren't reliable. | Результаты были ненадежны. |
| That much I knew." | Вот что я знал. |
| "What did you do?" asked Henderson. | - И как ты поступил? - спросил Гендерсон. |
| "I did what you did, John. | - Как и ты. |
