I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

My current project is science fiction, really ambitious I think. But again, it's a matter, to some extent, of what you can do, accepting limitations.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.