If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.