"Frankly," said Trevize, "it's annoying not to know the pronoun to use in connection with the creature. It impedes thought and conversation to hesita… - Isaac Asimov
"Frankly," said Trevize, "it's annoying not to know the pronoun to use in connection with the creature. It impedes thought and conversation to hesitate forever at the pronoun." "But that's the fault of our language," said Bliss, "and not of Fallom."
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (c. 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American biochemist who was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his works include the Foundation series and I, Robot.
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Por ello, es paradójico que las amargas denuncias romanas de los robos de los vándalos hayan hecho hoy el término "vándalo" un sinónimo de alguien que destruye todo por el placer de destruirlo; precisamente esto fue lo que los vándalos no hicieron en esta ocasión.
A robot, by its very nature, cannot bear to fail its function.
We can see, now, that the social background of the Empire makes wars of conquest impossible for it. Under weak Emperors, it is torn apart by generals competing for a worthless and surely death-bringing throne. Under strong Emperors, the Empire is frozen into a paralytic rigor in which disintegration apparently ceases for the moment, but only at the sacrifice of all possible growth.
