“ 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 incapabl… Arkady Strugatsky
“ I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes. Arkady Strugatsky
“ Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world Arkady Strugatsky
“ How can I give up stalking when I have a family to feed? Get a job? I don't want to work for you, your work makes me puke, do you understand? This is the way I figure it: if a man works with you, he i… Arkady Strugatsky
“ 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
“ 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 f… Arkady Strugatsky
“ 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… Arkady Strugatsky
“ And no matter how much the gray people in power despise knowledge, they can’t do anything about historical objectivity; they can slow it down, but they can’t stop it. Despising and fearing knowledge,… Arkady Strugatsky
“ The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain e… Arkady Strugatsky
