Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?