Issac Asimov Quotes

"I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty, if pinned down."

"In 1936, I first wrote science fiction. It was a long-winded attempt at writing an endless novel...which died. I remember one sentence, "Whole forests stood sere and brown in midsummer"."

"If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If THEY are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites."

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

"Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

"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."

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"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."

"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."