“It's funny, I wonder why we like being praised. There's no money in it. Fame? How famous could we get? . . . Aren't humans absurd? I suppose we like praise for its own sake. The way children like ice… — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“Dye a specsuit any color other than the original red, and any stalker would put down five hundred for it without batting an eyelash” “It’s light, comfortable, not too tight, and you don’t sweat in it from the heat. You can go right through a fire in this thing, and no gas will penetrate it. It’s even bulletproof, they say.… — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Copy Share
“It's funny, I wonder why we like being praised. There's no money in it. Fame? How famous could we get? . . . Aren't… — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have an unparallelled understanding of absolutely everything while knowing absolutely nothing.” — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“We don't notice things change. We know that things change, we've been told since childhood that things change, we've witnessed things change ourselves many… — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“mankind's most impressive achievement is that it has survived and intends to continue doing so.” — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
