Arkady Strugatsky Quotes

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

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.

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.