caída de un imperio es un suceso colosal, y no se combate con facilidad. Viene dictada por el crecimiento de la burocracia, la asfixia de la iniciati… - Isaac Asimov

In the first place, we started in the early days of science fiction — not only the Big Three, but others of importance such as Lester del Rey, Poul Anderson, Fred Pohl, Clifford Simak, Ray Bradbury, and even some who died young: Stanley Weinbaum, Henry Kuttner, and Cyril Kornbluth, for instance. In those early days, the magazines paid only one cent a word or less, and there were only magazines. There were no hardcover science fiction publishers, no paperbacks, no Hollywood to speak of.

What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.

I don’t want to believe it just because I want to believe it.