Quotes About Asimov

soy reconocido inventor de esta palabra (así como de «robótico», «positrónico» y «psicohistoria»)

Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental disruption results. Mild cases – hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases – madness and suicide.

And yet, in March of 1983, I presented Doubleday with the "long-awaited" third robot novel. It has no connection whatever with the ill-fated attempt of 1958, and its name is The Robots of Dawn.

Discipline today for a better life tomorrow is a true expression of First Law if robots could only be made to see it.

What is an Earthman?" "An inferior sort of human that ought not to be allowed on Solaria because he breeds disease, master.

Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn't be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble!

He looked at Retief. "Uh ... got time for a drink?" "I shouldn't drink during office hours," Retief said. He rose. "So I'll take the rest of the day off.

the question of ownership of the means of production becomes obsolescent. Whoever owned them (if such a phrase has meaning), a man, a group, a nation, or all mankind, they could be utilized only as the Machines directed.

I once told Riose that not all the Empire's strength could swerve the dead hand of Hari Seldon.

I'll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you're exhibiting has a certain justification

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica.

But as for me,' and he concluded in a whisper, so that Gaal could scarcely hear him, 'I am finished.

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica. Tengo por lo menos la esperanza de haber escrito ensayos serios sobre imperios galácticos y psicohistoria.

is fifty years now since this Foundation was established – sfifty years in which the members of the Foundation have been ignorant of what it was they were working toward. It was necessary that they be ignorant, but now the necessity is gone. 'The Encyclopedia Foundation, to begin with, is a fraud, and always has been!

Where is the B. who didn't at all like speculative fiction writers, with the exception of Margaret Atwood and the Jewish triumvirs: Asimov, Ellison, and Tidhar?" "Really?" I say. "Tidhar? Jesus Christ." "Yes," she screams. "Tidhar! You loved Tidhar!

Murray said, "Is this Heaven?" The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place." Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God?

Isaac Asimov's Foundation

I stepped through the doors of the SA Café with a borrowed copy of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot in my hand, expecting to find more of the same, only to find Philip K. Dick sitting at a table, obsessing over Gnostic demiurges and ersatz realities, Robert A. Heinlein across from him, spouting libertarian aphorisms but paying for Dick's coffee.

I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

but his delightful essay "The Relativity of Wrong" is an exception. It is printed in one of the many collections of Asimov's essays, The Relativity of Wrong (New York: Kensington Books, 1988). Asimov makes the simple point—one that seems to

Isaac Asimov got close to the truth when he said in 1974, "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

Interviewed on the David Letterman show in October 1980, famed science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov exclaimed, "I enjoyed The Empire Strikes Back so much that when they finished it, I jumped up in my seat and yelled, 'Start the third part!' I figure at the rate they're going, they'll do the last few after I'm dead, which doesn't strike me as fair." (Asimov passed away in 1992.)