Quotes by Arkady Strugatsky

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“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 explai...”

“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 incap...”

“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, h...”

“Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.”

“And no matter how much the gray people in power despise knowledge, they cant do anything about historical objectivity; they can slow it down, but they cant stop it. Despising and fearing knowledge,...”

“In some sense, were all cavemenwe cant imagine anything more frightening than a ghost or a vampire. But the violation of the principle of causalitythats actually much scarier than a whole herd of g...”

“Dye a specsuit any color other than the original red, and any stalker would put down five hundred for it without batting an eyelashIts light, comfortable, not too tight, and you dont sweat in it fr...”

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

“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.”

“Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world”

“You should have long since gotten rid of military-industrial complexes.”

“И всегда будут короли, более или менее жестокие, бароны, более или менее дикие, и всегда будет невежественный народ, питающий восхищение к своим угнетателям и ненависть к своему освободителю. И все...”

“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 knowledg...”

“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...”