"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for."

"he infinite is in capacity. That, however, which is infinite in capacity is not to be assumed as that which is infinite in energy. ...t has its being in capacity, and in division and diminution. ...t …"

"General intelligence is not only the ability to reach a given goal , but includes the setting of novel goals, and most important of all, about exploration. ...n environment with fixed tasks, scaled by…"

"I sometimes think the Labour Party is like a pub where the mild is running out. If someone doesn't do something soon, all that's left will be bitter. . And all that's bitter will be Left."

"I have designed a decorative and monumental work as a group of subjects representing the three ages of sacred and profane mythology: the Golden Age, the Silver Age and the Iron Age. I have symbolised …"