This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read, that's one thing, because you have to resolve a tremendous amount of background information. Also, you should know what the competition is writing, just so you're not wasting your time doing the same thing. Unless you do it better, of course.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

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

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."