You’ll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants. - Isaac Asimov

You are the only one responsible for your own wants.

to this day I don't know How To Write. I just write any old way it comes into my mind to write and just as fast as it comes into my mind. And that's the way I wrote "Nightfall." Mr. Campbell never sends letters of acceptance. He sends checks, instead, and very promptly, and that is an excellent way of handling the matter. I always found it thrilling. I received a check for "Nightfall" but my initial pang of delight was almost instantly snuffed out by the fact that Mr. Campbell had made a mistake. Standard payment at that time was a munificent 1 ¢ a word. (No complaints, folks; I was glad to get it.) The story was 12,000 words long and therefore I expected $120.00, but the check was for $150.00. I groaned. It would be so simple to cash the check and ask no questions, but the Ten Commandments, as preached to me by my stern and rockbound father, made it absolutely necessary to call Mr. Campbell at once and make arrangements for a new and smaller check. It turned out there was no mistake. The story seemed so good to Mr. Campbell that he gave me a bonus of ¼ ¢ a word.

En los mitos griegos, estaba el titán, o Prometeo, que suministró el fuego (y por consiguiente tecnología) a los seres humanos y por ello fue terriblemente castigado por el enfurecido Zeus, que era el dios jefe.

En 1816 se fundó la Sociedad Americana de Colonización, y se trasladó a negros a la costa de la protuberancia occidental de África; allí se fundó la nación de Liberia -de la palabra latina que significa libertad- y se le dio una capital, Monrovia, así llamada en homenaje al presidente Monroe