They are against the Machine?" "They would be against mathematics or against the art of writing if they had lived at the appropriate time. - Isaac Asimov

Es sorprendente que una colección de declaraciones que son individualmente ciertas puedan usarse, combinadas, para conseguir un resultado que no se hubiera logrado con la verdad.

For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment."

"You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are."