Isaac Asimov

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

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.