“I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have...” — Isaac Asimov Quote

“I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.”

“Stephen, how do we know what the ultimate good of Humanity will entail? We haven’t at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. If so, the Machines must move in that direction, preferably without telling us, since in our ignorant prejudices we only know that what we are used to, is good — and we would then fight change. Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. We don’t know. Only the Machines know, and they are going there and taking us with them.”

“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

“Books are a finer world within the world.”

“Electronic books are junk.”

“We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.”

“Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just kind of take over sometimes.”

“The proper study of mankind is books.”

“I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.”