Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed. - Isaac Asimov

Los cadáveres embalsamados se llamaron momias, término derivado de la palabra persa para "pez". (Pero ¿por qué persa? Pues porque los persas dominaron Egipto durante un tiempo en el siglo V a.c.; la palabra pasó luego a los griegos, y de los griegos a nosotros).

For the first time, the Foundation has been faced, or perhaps, is in the last stages of facing, civil war. Till now, the attacks from without have been adequately beaten off, and inevitably so, according to the strict laws of psycho-history. The attack at present is that of a too-undisciplined outer group of the Foundation against the too-authoritarian central government. The procedure was necessary, the result obvious.

No man of real competence could have avoided a dash of uncertainty at a job like that.