Humor was the enemy of desire.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.