University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.