Isaac Asimov citáty

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„Aj nepatrná myšlienka, ktorá je mylná, môže viesť k plodnému skúmaniu, ktoré môže nastoliť pravdy veľkej hodnoty.“

„Rozlišujeme pitie a pijanstvo. K druhému sa uchyľujeme len vtedy, keď ťažoba života láme nám chrbticu.“

„Násilie je posledné útočisko neschopných.“

„Správne čítaná Biblia je najmocnejšou silou pre ateizmus, akú si vieme predstaviť.“

„Ľudia svoju smrteľnosť tolerujú len preto, že platí všeobecne.“

„Keby mi doktor povedal, že mám len šesť minút života, nepremýšlal by som. Písal by som o trochu rýchlejšie.“

„Život je šťastný. Smrť je pokojná. Je to prechod, ktorý je nepríjemný.“

„Nie je nič desivé na nekonečnom bezsennom spánku. Určite je to lepšie ako nekonečné muky v pekle a nekonečná nuda v nebi.“

„Pevne verím, že sebavzdelávanie je jediným druhom vzdelávania, aké existuje.“

„Písanie je pre mňa jednoducho myslenie cez moje prsty.“

„Ak vedomosti môžu vytvárať problémy, nie je to ignorantstvo čo ich vie vyriešiť.“

„Ak mám pravdu, (náboženskí fundamentalisti) nepôjdu do neba, lebo žiadneho neba niet. Ak majú pravdu oni, nepôjdu do neba, lebo sú pokrytci.“

„Najlepšie prístroj na odhaľovanie lží je žiarlivá žena.“

„Nebojím sa počítačov. Bojím sa ich nedostatku.“

„Myslím si, že desať mileniek je lepších, ako jedna manželka. Pretože som dobrý manžel, môžem iba snívať.“

„Tri základné zákony robotiky. Po prvé, robot nesmie zraniť ľudskú bytosť alebo dovoliť, aby sa jej v dôsledku nečinnosti ublížilo. Po druhé, robot musí poslúchať príkazy ľudských bytostí, okrem prípadov, keď by takéto príkazy boli v rozpore s prvým zákonom. Po tretie, robot musí chrániť svoju vlastnú existenciu, pokiaľ takáto ochrana nie je v rozpore s prvým a druhým zákonom.“

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”

“People think of education as something they can finish.”

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”

“My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job
that he isn't worth discussing.”

“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”

“The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.”

““You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.”
“Then let’s get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm’s due tomorrow.”
Powell sighed wearily. “That’s where everything falls down. Postulates are based on assumptions and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. I’m going to bed.””

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

“All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”

“All evil is good become cancerous.”

“There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.”

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”

“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”

“We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.”

“The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”

“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”

“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”

“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”

““Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.”
“Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.””

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.”

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”

“I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.”

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”