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
I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes. - Arkady Strugatsky
But why in the world do we need money, if all we ever do is keep working? - Arkady Strugatsky
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
Они, болваны, не давали ему читать, и он умер от голода. - Arkady Strugatsky