Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered?" The Martian was silent, but then he looked ahead. "But there they are. I see them. Isn't that enough for me? They wait for me now, no matter what you say.

Kendimize kabul ettirmemiz gereken en önemli şey önemli olmadığımızdı.

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.