Los robots eran máquinas y no metáforas. - Isaac Asimov

I despise envy on principle and I feel only contempt for those who fall prey to it; so I never let myself feel it, you see, unless I can call it something else.

Lo aún peor es que el Universo no morirá con nosotros. De manera firme e inmortal continúa hacia sus cambios cíclicos, añadiendo a la injuria de la muerte el insulto de la indiferencia.

His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before. That is, not in real life. He had seen it many times on the hyper- video, and occasionally in tremendous three- dimensional newscasts covering an Imperial Coronation or the opening of a Galactic Council. Even though he had lived all his life on the world of Synnax, which circled a star at the edges of the Blue Drift, he was not cut off from civilization, you see. At that time, no place in the Galaxy was.