Quotes About Asimov

A simple aspect of science may be defined as one which, through good fortune, I happen to understand.

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

60,000 kilometres per second may be the practical (!) speed limit for space travel

There was so much more in the past, so much less in the future, that the mind turned away from the looming shadow ahead to contemplate the safety of what had gone before.

the case of Askone twenty years ago. First they were sold some of your goods and then your people asked for complete freedom of missionary effort in order that the goods might be run properly; that Temples of Health be set up. There was then the establishment of religious schools; autonomous rights for all officers of the religion and with what result? Askone is now an integral member of the Foundation's system and the Grand Master cannot call his underwear his own.

Bir robot, bir insana zarar veremez. Ya da hareketsiz kalarak bir insan?n zarar görmesine neden olamaz. 2. Bir robot, insanlar?n verdikleri emirlere uymak zorundad?r. Ancak bu tür emirler Birinci Yasayla çeliÅŸtiÄŸi zaman durum deÄŸiÅŸir. 3. Bir robot, Birinci ve Ä°kinci Yasalarla çeliÅŸmediÄŸi sürece varl???n? korumak zorundad?r. Robotik El Kitab? 56. Bask?. M.S. 2158

It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted.

No me considero como un ser de inteligencia subnormal, pero la cuestión es que su vaga conferencia no es muy reveladora.

Why do you slink away as I approach? Berliner: I fear you, majesty. King (wielding his stick): You're supposed to love me, scum! Love me! [Asimov's Chronology of the World, p. 276]

The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.

At any rate, without quite knowing what dissatisfied me about the robot stories I read, I waited for something better, and I found it in the December 1938 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. That issue contained "Helen O'Loy" by Lester del Rey, a story in which a robot was portrayed sympathetically. It was, I believe, only his second story, but I was a del Rey fan forever after.

It had happened with the sudden catastrophe of a dream – and with all the unreal horror of a dream.

THE FOUNDATION NOVELS Prelude to Foundation Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge Forward the Foundation

la caída del imperio, caballeros, es algo monumental y no puede combatirse fácilmente. Está dictada por una burocracia en aumento, una recesión de la iniciativa, una congelación de las castas, un estancamiento de la curiosidad… y muchos factores más.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' Character who said it in novel: Salvor Hardin

Assassination isn't the way out, Devers. I once tried it, under provocation, when I was twenty – but it solved nothing. I removed a villain from Siwenna, but not the Imperial yoke; and it was the Imperial yoke and not the villain that mattered.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Un robot no puede lastimar a la humanidad o, por falta de acción, permitir que la humanidad sufra daños. La considero ahora la ley Cero de la Robótica. La primera ley debería decir: Un robot no debe dañar a un ser humano, o permitir, por inacción, que el ser humano sufra algún daño, a menos que tal acción viole la ley Cero de la Robótica.

No? Then listen to this. It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted." Leebig moved spasmodically. "Misquoted? Fool! Madman! Why?" "To hide the fact," said Baley with complete composure, "that robots can commit murder.

era RG-32 la elección lógica; de hecho, la única. No fue difícil explicarle de algún modo lo que necesitábamos. Archie (era costumbre llamar a un robot por alguna perversión vulgar de su número de serie)

No robot built, of any type, could possibly hurt a human being. That was the First Law of Robotics: "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

You feel safe now that Seldon will speak, and you move against us. A month ago you were soft and yielding, when our ships defeated the Mule at Terel. I might remind you, sir, that it is the Foundation Fleet that has been defeated in open battle five times, and that the ships of the Independent Trading Worlds have won your victories for you.

There was an element of secrecy in a home library. It breathed of intellectual anarchy.

Sajnálom, Pirenne, de a városi alkotmány garantál bizonyos jelentéktelen apróságot, amit sajtószabadságként tartunk számon.