Tag: isaac asimov

7 posts since December 2011 RSS

  • September 12th, 2013 4:47pm

    But Solaria was no longer the world of her youth. It was a world without humanity, guarded over by distorted parodies of humanity; humanoid robots that made a mockery of the gentle Daneel and the thought-filled Giskard.

    — Isaac Asimov – Robots and Empire

  • August 13th, 2013 2:19pm

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

    — Isaac Asimov

  • August 11th, 2013 9:19pm

    When people talk about how science fiction writers predict the present it’s because they’ve gone through a large corpus of work and picked out certain things. We can’t just predict, there isn’t enough story material in straight predictions. We make up futures, it doesn’t matter whether we really think they’ll come to pass or not.

    — Isaac Asimov.