Author of quotes: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Page 4

Our world is like a night steeped in a dream to the chicken coop, where there is only accidentally touch the feather of some Flycatcher, slumbering on the hearth, as everything comes in indescribable excitement, rushes, cackles and throws litter everywhere.

Too bad that old man is useless. Squeeze him like a lemon and go die.

This shouldn't be such a profession, to control was impossible - working people, or, conversely, sleeping?

A lie is a denial or distortion of fact. But what is the fact? Is it even in our incredibly complex reality to talk about the fact? The fact is a phenomenon or an act witnessed by eyewitnesses? However, eyewitnesses can be biased, selfish or just ignorant... the Fact that there is an act or phenomenon is attested in documents? But documents can be forged or fabricated... Finally, the fact that there is an act or phenomenon recorded by me personally. However, my feelings can be blunted or even completely deceived attendant circumstances. Thus it appears that the fact itself is something very ephemeral, vague, inaccurate, and there is a natural need to opt out of such concepts.

Edward replied that, Yes, a decent person to be much harder than the dark and criminal. The actions of decent people is always aimed at improving the world. Decent people can't be pleased, if they managed to achieve even the most noble goal, ignoble means. The harder the position of an honest man in comparison with the position of the dark and criminal, but a decent man forced to carefully and meticulously select the means to achieve the objectives in each case.

Everyone dreams of that elusive, but promises pleasure.

You can call corporazioni, because no other kind is not smart enough yet to parasitize on myself. Your boss is a parasite on subordinates, your criminals are parasites on the so-called decent, your fools profited from your wise men. And it's - the kings of nature!

Stalkers are not people, they are mutants.

The fact that the most interesting and elegant research results often have the ability to seem abstruse to the uninitiated and sad and confusing. People who are far from science, in our time, waiting for her miracle and only miracle and hardly able to distinguish a real scientific miracle from a trick or some intellectual somersault.

Wine, used in moderation, very good for the stomach; but when you drink it too much, it produces pairs, degrading man to the extent foolish beasts. You have sometimes seen drunks and remember more just aversion to them, you have no effect.

... all my life I hear the chatter of the precipices. All told, that humanity falls into the abyss, but can not prove anything. And in fact, is always that all this philosophical pessimism is a consequence of family problems or lack of funds...

I'll try to convince you by logic. You see, Toivo, the possibility of unsolvable problems can be predicted a priori. Science, as we know, is indifferent to morality. But only as long as the object becomes the mind. Suffice it to recall the issues of eugenics and intelligent machines... I know you will say that this is our internal affair. Then take the same reasonable forest. While he's by himself, he can be the object of quiet contemplation. But if he is at war with other intelligent beings, the question of research becomes moral. We have to decide which side to be, and decide we can't, because the science of moral problems are not solved, and morality - by itself, within itself - it has no logic, it is set before us, as the fashion for trousers, and does not answer the question: why it is so and not otherwise.

The rebels oppressed is always right, and that's it.

Has a rough blackmail extraterrestrial enemy, well equipped technically, hopelessly retarded mentally and decidedly UN-encumbered morally, ethically.