Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)

by Isaac Asimov

it apparently doesn’t occur to you to apply the rules of psychohistory to the Laws of Robotics.”

“I suspect you will find that no individual is ever truly crucial. Not even I—or you.”

Is that the only future humanity has, to push the boulder, like Sisyphus, up to the top of a hill, only to see it roll to the bottom again?”

Perhaps psychohistory will show us a path to an entirely new society, one altogether different from anything we have seen, one that would be stable and desirable.”