“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompétence.”

“Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'-- "The Last Trump”

“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”

“Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]”

“The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.”

“And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer--by demonstration--would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"And there was light--”