We might not be able to give out the news for security reasons—that’s the excuse they always advance for hiding bad news—but I would know. - Isaac Asimov

A robot must not hurt a human being, unless he can think of a way to prove it is for the human being's ultimate good after all.

Isaac Asimov's ability to take the Big Ideas so crucial to the sense of wonder in science fiction and embody them in compellingly human stories and settings — particularly in his robot stories, Foundation works, and other speculative fiction both long and short — raised the bar high for all of us who have followed him in the tradition of idea-driven science fiction. Asimov was a law unto himself, yet he gave his fellow writers laws — of robotics, and psychohistory — that have shaped all of us who have tried to write of machine intelligence or of human civilizations vast in time and space. That is his great and vital legacy. — Howard V. Hendrix

It seems to be almost an invariable rule that as real power declines, the symbols of power multiply and intensify in compensation.