Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.