If one has read Asimov's stories, they are so cogently written, with a lot of subtleties and convolutions, that it's no surprise that he could dice up the buy-bull. I have to be on my game, even reading his older writings, tp get it all. He wrote some incredibly convoluted murder mysteries, as well. The man was brilliant, no question.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.