💬 Quotes

"What should we have done? We were young and we were part of it, but we were also witnesses who could have done nothing."

"The reading wasn't a way to hide from the world, but a way to make it intelligible."

"Whatever I did, I was either doing it with her or thinking of her, and even when I didn't think of her, I was thinking of her."

"Never, in the course of our scientific advancement, have we had to face a situation where the product was greater than the creator."

"The Three Laws of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a positronic brain. They are not merely suggestions; they are the fundamental architecture of machine morality."

"Robots are not dangerous. Their environment is dangerous. Only when a human creates a situation where a robot's logic fails does tragedy occur."

"You can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans—except that the robot is better."

"If a robot can be created which can act like a man, then a man can be created who can act like a robot. The distinction becomes a matter of definition rather than reality."

"The Master Argument is that robots are simply the next step in evolution, and it is the destiny of humanity to become obsolete."

"Every woman is a house, and every house has a secret room. And in every secret room, there is a ghost."

"Magic is not about what you see. It is about what you are persuaded to believe you have missed."

"You can’t run from a ghost if you carry the graveyard inside your own ribcage."

"The past is a phantom limb. You feel it itching, you feel it aching, you reach out to scratch it, but there is nothing there but thin air."

"Death is the ultimate escape act, and Houdini spent his whole life trying to figure out how to pick the lock."

"We are all merely stagehands in the theater of our own madness, rearranging the props while the audience waits for a curtain that never rises."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

"I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."

"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man."

"If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."