If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. Isaac Asimov More Quotes by Isaac Asimov More Quotes From Isaac Asimov Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering. Isaac Asimov tinkeringquantitylove The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop. Isaac Asimov gentlemancuriosityfall Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Isaac Asimov truth-isfoundationloyalty Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. Isaac Asimov reluctancemanagementprocess I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court. Isaac Asimov playhandsthinking All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties. Isaac Asimov safetyspacepeople Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. Isaac Asimov businessinspirationalfunny It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. Isaac Asimov continuing-onchangepast I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. Isaac Asimov long-agomindwriting I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why. Isaac Asimov knowswant No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables. Isaac Asimov lapsesdusthistory At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel. Isaac Asimov hydrogen-atomspacetwo The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate Isaac Asimov incomenuclearimportant This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess. Isaac Asimov busygameschess In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process Isaac Asimov finite-numberdatanumbers Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete Isaac Asimov theorytruthlying 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 Isaac Asimov realbookthinking Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence Isaac Asimov appreciateselflife-is In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light. Isaac Asimov lightdarknessmind Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. Isaac Asimov happy-dayimaginationlife
