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• What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

  Isaac Asimov

  Six Months, Type, Faster

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• Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

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  Love, Tinkering, Quantity

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

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  Stars, Reality, Men

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.248, Macmillan

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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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  Order, Law, Robots

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.31, Spectra

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• The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

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  Past, Forever, World

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam

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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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  Cheer, Pregnancy, Technology

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• On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

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  Dream, Past, Moon

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• It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month

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  Real, Book, Thinking

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• It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

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  Change, Past, Continuing On

  1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

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• We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

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  Fall, Science, Moon

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• [O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

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  Thinking, Inevitable Change, Way

  1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

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• Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.

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  Hate, Fighting, Intelligent

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

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  Light, Darkness, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

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  Atheist, Science, Religion

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

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  Law, Errors, Variation

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

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  Stars, People, Fields

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.30, Spectra

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• That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

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  Encounters, Fiction, Harm

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• It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

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  Past, Reform, Research

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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