There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past. - Isaac Asimov

Celebro que los ingenieros no hayan inventado todavía el robot que pueda trabajar en la oscuridad total. Me horrorizaría encontrar siete robots en un pozo negro sin radiocomunicación, si no estuviesen "iluminados" como árboles de Navidad radiactivos.

Writing is hard work. The fact that I love doing it doesn't make it less hard work. People who love tennis will sweat themselves to exhaustion playing it, and the love of the game doesn't stop the sweating. The casual assumption that writers are unemployed bums because they don't go to the office and don't have a boss is something every writer has to live with. I have never known a writer who hasn't suffered as a result of this, hasn't resented it, and hasn't dreamed of murdering the next person who says "Boy, you've sure got it made. You just sit there and toss off a story or something whenever you feel like it."

Historians pick and choose and every one of them picks and chooses the same thing.