The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers... - Isaac Asimov

"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for."

"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."