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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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And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
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We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.
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Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
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You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
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I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.
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This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.
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The Tyranni rule fifty worlds they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.
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Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
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A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]
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