952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Past glories are poor feeding.

¡Los anuncios! Un procedimiento para atraer a los desinteresados. ¿Qué le importaba a un fabricante de vehículos terrestres si el deseo de un individuo desconocido hacia su producto era espontáneo o provocado? Si el cliente —esa era la palabra— podía ser artificialmente convencido o sugestionado para sentir tal deseo y actuar en consecuencia, ¿no era eso todo lo que le importaba al fabricante?

¿No es desagradable la ostentación que esas gentes hacían de sus creaciones? ¿Quién puede ser tan estúpido como para creer a una persona que ensalza su propio producto? ¿Acaso va a confesar sus defectos? ¿Retrocederá ante cualquier exageración?

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect human beings to withstand the temptation to handle knobs, keys, handles and pushbuttons.

There was something I tried to put in, Gottstein, but between my not knowing how to phrase it andEarth's reluctance to grasp my meaning, we ended up not communicating.

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

Yıllar önce Isaac bir mektubunda Lili adlı sinema filmini izlediğini ve hayali bale sahnesinde ağladığını yazmıştı: "Beni niye ağlattığını biliyorum. Bu, aynı hayat gibi, insanlar birer birer giderler ve sen onları uğurlarsın, ta ki bir gün sıra sana gelene ve başkaları seni uğurlayana kadar. Sanırım burada önemli olan Carpe Diem - günü yakalamak - sonra geçip gitmesine izin vermektir

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.