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Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov föddes den 2 januar 1920 och dog den 6 april 1992 - Russia-born writer
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Well, I can type all day without getting tired. [In response to a question as to which he preferred, women or writing]

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

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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I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice as to how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and that it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' And Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.'

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.

[Its nearest rival, I discovered, is The Last Question by science fiction maestro Isaac Asimov. This is the one about what happens when all the stars burn out. Is entropy reversible?] It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story, ... They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.

Then Priss arrived, dragging a volume of colorlessness in with him, a drabness that was unaffected by the noise and the absolute splendor (no other word would describe it - or else it was the two martinis glowing inside me) that filled the room

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Liv

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly

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