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Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
Isaac Asimov
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Isaac Asimov
Age: 72 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 2
Died: 1992
Died: April 6
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Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw
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The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.
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True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily dumbing down.
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
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Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.
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There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.
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I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.
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It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
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In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.
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Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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