Memories sting when they come suddenly. - Isaac Asimov

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

there is a tendency to cling to the past — except, of course, as far as weapons of war are concerned.

The Library was outmoded and archaic — it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time — but that was all to the good. Pelorat always rubbed his hands with excitement when he thought of an old and outmoded Library. The older and the more outmoded, the more likely it was to have what he needed. In his dreams, he would enter the Library and ask in breathless alarm, 'Has the Library been modernized? Have you thrown out the old tapes and computerizations?' And always he imagined the answer from dusty and ancient librarians, 'As it has been, Professor, so it is still.