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The greatest single problem facing humanity today is the multiplicity of people.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
The whole world seems to live under the banner: “Freedom is wonderful—but only for me.”
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
It is a mistake to think that because a group has suffered extreme persecution that is a sign that they are virtuous and innocent.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Ronald Reagan I have always viewed as a brainless fellow who echoes the opinions of anyone who gets close to him.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
As one gets older and more rickety, and as medical technology advances, doctors love to play with their toys, using you as their victim.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
I shuddered at the thought of living in Florida, though, a place where six inches is a high elevation.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Publishers, with their usual bravery, dumbed down their books in order to make money at the expense of leaving American children undereducated or, worse, miseducated.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
As far as we know, the human species is the only one that understands that death is inevitable, not only in general but in every individual’s case.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
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.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Ten thousand years ago, human beings devised the techniques of agriculture and herding and slowly begin the process of destroying the environment by overgrazing and by overfarming.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies. And though you survive yourself, you must watch death take away the world of your youth, little by little.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Earlier in the book, I mentioned my lack of any real feeling of affection for infants and children. I am not exactly sold on teenagers either.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
It is amazing how the young women flock about me now that I’m old and harmless. Where were they when I could have taken wicked advantage of their affection?
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
I just work on the principle that of all the virtues gratitude (next to honesty) is the greatest, and that has helped me on numerous occasions in my life.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
The trouble is that I am one of the common breed of human being who finds it very easy to strew noble little homilies far and wide but considerably less easy to follow those homilies himself.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
I received other options but nothing ever happened and I developed what I call Asimov’s First Law of Hollywood, which goes as follows:
“Whatever happens, nothing happens!”
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
The novels I have been writing lately are the kind I wrote in the 1950s. (I have been criticized for this by some critics, but the day I pay attention to critics is the day the sky will fall.)
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
As the Reagan administration continued to transfer funds from hospitals and other much-needed social institutions into the pockets of arms manufacturers and politicians, working conditions grew steadily worse.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)