“I find the shape of people’s eyes particularly interesting when they’re being condescending. I see a wariness or a fear of being contradicted or sometimes a belligerent spark ready to jump on any attack. And if they’re unaware of being condescending, their glazed-over eyeballs are steeped in a fluid mix of ecstasy and a sense of superiority.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality - however messy - is far more comprehensible”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“The robot said, 'I have been trying, friend Julius, to understand some remarks Elijah made to me earlier. Perhaps I am beginning to, for it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of thi sevil into what you call good.'
He hesitated, then, almost as though he were surprised at his own owrds, he said, 'Go, and sin no more!”
― The Caves of Steel
He hesitated, then, almost as though he were surprised at his own owrds, he said, 'Go, and sin no more!”
― The Caves of Steel
“Young people are all the same. The more books you read, the more confused you become.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot
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