Three Laws of Robotics later wrote that he should not be praised for creating the Laws, because they are "obvious from the start, and everyone is aware of them subliminally. The Laws just never happened to be put into brief sentences until I managed to do the job. The Laws apply, as a matter of course, to every tool that human beings use", and "analogues of the Laws are implicit in the design of almost all tools, robotic or not": Asimov believed that, ideally, humans would also follow the Laws: Asimov's stories test his Three Laws in a wide variety of circumstances leading to
Sci-Fi Lullabies albums." Writing for "Vox", Simon Price felt that Anderson wrote some of his funniest lyrics on CD2, on the tracks "Young Men" and "Jumble Sale Mums". Aside from "Duchess", which he called "lazy rubbish," he had strong praise for both discs. The album continued Suede's run of consecutive top ten albums, peaking at no. 9 in October 1997. Despite never placing on any of "Billboard"'s charts, "Sci-Fi Lullabies" had sold 19,000 units in the US by 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Keith Phipps of "The A.V. Club" and Scott Plagenhoef of "Stylus Magazine" spoke of the effort invested in Suede's