Isaac Asimov

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.