Quotes Overview

What have the barbarians to lose? They only live a few decades, in any case. Life means nothing to them.

The Three Laws of Robotics involve individual human beings and individual robots. You can point to any individual human being or to an individual robot. But what is your 'humanity' but an abstraction? Can you point to humanity?

There is a law that is greater than the First Law. A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

There are always emergencies when a government wishes to manufacture one - and in an emergency, rules can always be broken.

Earth is an enclosed, claustrophilic world, mentally as well as physically.

People generally find it much easier to make a pleasant deduction than an unpleasent one.

My death is not important. No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.

Apparently, crowds are more easily managed than individuals

We cannot change the past, unfortunately buy we can still decide on what the future shall be.

I never knew that Earth was so admirable as to make imitation desirable.

We teach the advantage of short life-quality versus quantity, evolutionary speed, ever-changing world - but nothing really makes people happy about living ten decades when they imagine they could live fourty.

You are not totally committed to sanity, are you? -

I never claimed to be.