Strugatsky Cul-de-sac is a great excuse to break down walls

Gleb Gusakov wrote about them: "... At first they decided to share the duties: part of the chapters should be written by Arkady, part of Boris. And what? The elder brother immediately went far ahead, while the younger brother was stamping on the spot. And in the correspondence Arkady Natanovich continually urged: "Come on! I'm already where, and you're all on the first chapter! .. ". Some time passed and it became clear: we write together. It's decided! So the author appeared - the Strugatsky brothers, or the "writer Strugatsky". The ebullient, irrepressible fantasy of Arkady was balanced by cold contemplation, philosophy and a tendency to reflect Boris. "A few quotations of the most famous Soviet and Russian science fiction writers will help to think a lot.

What can be simpler than a primitive zero-transmitter? Only a primitive zero-battery.
In each person everything is put together a little, and life squeezes out of this mixture something one on a surface.
Listen, books, and you know that you are more thanof people? If all people disappeared, you could inhabit the earth and be exactly the same as people. Among you there are kind and honest, wise, knowledgeable, and frivolous, pacifiers, skeptics, crazy, murderers, corrupters, children, sad preachers, self-satisfied fools and half-hoarse screamers with sore eyes. And you would not know why you are.
They told me that this road would lead to an ocean of death and I turned back halfway. Since then, all stretch before me curves are deaf trail trails ...
To teach not to bow to authority, but to study them and compare their teachings with life.
Reason is the ability to use the forces of the surrounding world without destroying this world.
It's all right: people need money to never think about them.
There is me, there is no me, I fight, I lie on the couch - no difference. Nothing can be changed, nothing can be remedied. You can only get a job - better or worse. Everything goes on its own, and I'm not involved in anything.
This is my general opinion.
Manners of any person are strange. Only their own manners seem natural.
One should never forget that in our Euclidean world every stick has two ends.
Conscience pain sets tasks, mind -performs. Conscience sets the ideals, the mind seeks for them the roads. This is the function of the mind - to look for roads. Without conscience, the mind works only for itself, which means - in the blank.
Wherever the greyness triumphs, blacks always come to power.
And all because the slave understands much betterhis master, even the most cruel, than his liberator, for each slave perfectly represents himself in the place of the master, but few imagine himself in the place of an unselfish liberator.
What is the expediency of building a bridge across the river from the pike's point of view?
It was necessary to change everything. Not one life and not two lives, not one destiny and not two fates - every cog in this stinking world had to be changed ...
The future is a thoroughly disinfected present.
Try to understand ... ... that there is no one and only future. There are many of them, and each of your actions creates one of them ...
... I'm an animal, you see, I'm an animal. I have no words, I was not taught words, I do not know how to think. But if you really are ... omnipotent, all-powerful, all-understanding ... figure it out! Look in my soul, I know - there is everything you need. It should be. I never sold my soul to anyone! It's mine, human! Pull me out yourself, what do I want, because it's impossible that I want bad! .. If it's all cursed, I can not think of anything other than these words: "Happiness for all is free, and let no one will not go offended! ".