Strugatsky Quotes

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#2. The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

Ha-Joon Chang

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#4. 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.

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#6. 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.

Arkady Strugatsky

#7. 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

Arkady Strugatsky

#8. Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

Annie Dillard

#9. Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.

Rick Joyner

#10. Monday Starts on Saturday.

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#12. 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.

Arkady Strugatsky

#13. As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. 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

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#19. 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.

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#23. Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

Jeff Bridges

#24. 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.

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#26. 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?

Arkady Strugatsky

#27. 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.

Arkady Strugatsky

#28. Hold it down until you come up

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#29. Crowd was to be pleased. Crowd was to be worshipped and feared. Ultimately, Crowd was to be made sacrifice unto.

Richard Bachman

#30. It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

Patrick Rothfuss

#31. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky

#34. 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.

Arkady Strugatsky

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

Arkady Strugatsky