The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statemen… - Isaac Asimov

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

It is that state of anarchy which my project is pledged to fight. The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity – a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

The house was somehow very lonely at night and Dr. Darell found that the fate of the Galaxy made remarkably little difference while his daughter's mad little life was in danger.

Tendríamos el infinito en nuestras manos. Cada mundo tendría su propio Tiempo, sus valores, la oportunidad de buscar la Felicidad a su manera y en su ambiente. Hay muchas clases de Felicidad, de Bien, una infinita variedad de propósitos. ¡Ese es el Estado Básico de la Humanidad!