I've seen many people with status, but I'm still looking for a happy one. Status won't sit still under you; you have to continually fight to keep fro… - Isaac Asimov

Hardin groaned in spirit. The Board seemed to suffer violently from Encyclopedia on the brain. He said icily: 'Has it ever occurred to this Board that it is barely possible that Terminus may have interests other than the Encyclopedia?' Pirenne replied: 'I do not conceive, Hardin, that the Foundation can have any interest other than the Encyclopedia.' 'I didn't say the Foundation; I said Terminus.

Los filósofos como Diógenes eran llamados kynikos, de la palabra griega kyon, que significa perro, porque parecían estar siempre ladrando y gruñiendo al género humano (al menos, según una de las versionas sobre el origen de la palabra). En nuestra lengua, esa palabra se ha convertido en "cínico". Aún hoy se usa para designar a quien cree que todas las acciones son inspiradas por motivos malos o egoístas.

Trantor was a world in dregs and rebirth. Set like a faded jewel in the midst of the bewildering crowd of suns at the center of the Galaxy — in the heaps and clusters of stars piled high with aimless prodigality — it alternately dreamed of past and future.