The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

When she shines we all bask in her happiness, but when the thunderstorms come in, let me warn you, find a faraway hiding hole." Dorothy Broadbelt, lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth 1.

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours.