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An incompetent traitor is no danger. It is rather the capable men who must be watched. [197] It is an affair of a romantic idiot; but even a romantic idiot can be a deadly when an unromantic rebel uses him as a tool. [198] [I] would remind you that there is a difference between boldness and blindness. [209] Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases. [259] The thanks of a weak one are of but little value. [259] The mistiness of the distance hides the truth [312] But if you're going to pretend you're nineteen, Arcadia, what will you do when you're twenty-five and all the boys think you're thirty? [407] [H]e used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. [415] He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound  true. [415/6] The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise. [419] ____________ Read the review ...

The Foundation Trilogy (Del Rey) contains three of the four foundation stories by the prolific writer - who wrote and published under every one of the major Dewey classification system, Isaac Asimov. The three stories are:  Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire  (1952) and Second Foundation (1953) .  These stories were the first hard-core science fiction I've ever read and because it deals not with aliens but with technology and conquering - two things that rule the world today - I could easily follow the plot. Asimov's writing is definitely not the best of prose I've ever read but his ideas are top notch. His description of equipment and the technology behind them is amazing and my limited knowledge of technology shows me that most have been realised. The story is about the history of a the galactic empire and how one man Hari Seldon - a brilliant psycho-historian - worked out the probabilities and pathway of saving a generation that is destroying itself. In To...