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Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4) QUOTES

Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4) QUOTES

1 " It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

2 " You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

3 " The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

4 " The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always rubbed his hands with excitement when he thought of an old and outmoded Library. The older and the more outmoded, the more likely it was to have what he needed. In his dreams, he would enter the Library and ask in breathless alarm, 'Has the Library been modernized? Have you thrown out the old tapes and computerizations?' And always he imagined the answer from dusty and ancient librarians, 'As it has been, Professor, so it is still. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

5 " He didn’t believe that, surely.” “Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn’t want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

6 " Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.'
'There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

7 " I can't believe you. Are you under the impression that the Second Foundation is doing this for us? That they are some sort of idealists? Isn't it clear to you from your knowledge of politics—that they are doing it for themselves?
We are the cutting edge. We are the engine, the force. We labor and sweat and bleed and weep. They merely control—adjusting an amplifier here, closing a contact there, and doing it all with ease and without risk to themselves. Then, when it is all done and when, after a thousand years of heaving and straining, we have set up the Second Galactic Empire, the people of the Second Foundation will move in as the ruling elite. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

8 " humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

9 " There’s no record in the history of the Galaxy of any society being so foolish as to use nuclear explosions as a weapon of war. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

10 " Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

11 " We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

12 " A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part and produces no unpleasant stresses. Good design can be worked out on the mathematical principles of mechanics. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

13 " A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

14 " the eye were no more than sense organs. The brain was no more than a central switchboard, encased in bone and removed from the working surface of the body. It was the hands that were the working surface, the hands that felt and manipulated the universe. Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

15 " When one’s home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

16 " The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.’  "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

17 " Toda humanidade pode compartilhar a mesma insanidade e estar imersa em uma ilusão comum enquanto vive em um caos comum. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

18 " Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.’  "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

19 " Well, besides, I’ve arranged with the computer that anyone who doesn’t look and sound like one of us will be killed if he—or she—tries to board the ship. I’ve taken the liberty of explaining that to the Port Commander. I told him very politely that I would love to turn off that particular facility out of deference to the reputation that the Sayshell City Spaceport holds for absolute integrity and security—throughout the Galaxy, I said—but the ship is a new model and I didn’t know how to turn it off.”
“He didn’t believe that, surely.”
“Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn’t want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said.”
“And that’s another example of how people are?”
“Yes. You’ll get used to this. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)

20 " - Golan, spuse Pelorat, am impresia ca progresul civilizatiei nu reprezinta nimic altceva decat un exercitiu de limitare a intimitatii. "

― Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4)