Arkady Strugatsky Quotes

#1. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

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#2. Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.

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#3. Intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts.

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#4. 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 a time, and yet we're still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes
or we search for change in all the wrong places.

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#5. Emotion, as we all know, is lack of information and nothing more.

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#6. Take myths, for instance! As we know, fools are the overwhelming majority, which means that the witness to any interesting event has generally been a fool. Ergo: a myth is a description of a real event as perceived by a fool and refined by a poet. eh?

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#7. In some sense, we're all cavemen - we can't imagine anything more frightening than a ghost or a vampire. But the violation of the principle of causality - that's actually much scarier than a whole herd of ghosts ... or Rubinstein's monsters ... or is that Wallenstein?"
"Frankenstein.

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#8. Have we never had to compromise before? Of course, hundreds of times! And will hundreds more! And not with gods, but with lousy bureaucrats, with nits who are disgusting to touch.

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#9. The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have an unparallelled understanding of absolutely everything while knowing absolutely nothing.

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#10. but strangely enough, his eyebrows and eyebrows were intact.

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#11. I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.

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#12. But why in the world do we need money, if all we ever do is keep working?

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#13. Monday Starts on Saturday.

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#14. You should have long since gotten rid of military-industrial complexes.

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#15. It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an octopus that doesn't even exist.

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#16. He made the sign of the cross, clumsily, with a Catholic accent

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#17. Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption - that an alien race would be psychologically human.

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#18. Our century people shoot themselves because they're ashamed before others - society, friends ... In the last century people shot themselves because they were ashamed before themselves. You

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#19. HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!

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#20. The Experiment is the Experiment." For all its contemptuous insanity, the idea still seemed to have some kind of rational kernel to it.

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#21. Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at
a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and life was a breeze.

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#22. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In their utterly contemptible pseudo-morality they ignore the contents and madly attack individual words. Years

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#23. You can imagine anything at all. And real life is never what you imagine.

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#24. Mankind's most impressive achievement is that it has survived and intends to continue doing so.

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#25. If I could imagine myself as God, I'd become him!

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#26. I'm living in a world someone has thought up without bothering to tell me, or maybe even himself.

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