He produced about books as co- author or co- editor. No accurate count is available. He won the Hugo and Nebula awards and received many honorary doctorates. He enjoyed confined spaces and liked to work in windowless rooms. He was afraid of air travel and generally disliked travel of any kind. He is the only author to have a published book in every Dewey Decimal library category apart from Philosophy. He had kept it hidden at the behest of his doctors. It is believed that the primary cause of death wasn't AIDS, however, but kidney and heart failure.
Enjoyed a friendly rivalry with fellow science-fiction writer Arthur C. He was the first science-fiction writer to headline his own magazine. Volume 3, , pages New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Attributed his ability to research and write about almost any subject to an ample memory. He could retain most of the things that he read or was told.
He added however that his memory was not photographic, and he often had trouble with visual details. His "Foundation" series won the Hugo award for "Best all-time series" in , beating J. Tolkien 's "The Lord of the Rings". Someday they'll come and find me slumped over that electric typewriter with my nose in the keys. It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory.
It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.
I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely--every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds. When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys.
Science-fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. 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.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough? If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. I write for the same reason I breathe--because if I didn't, I would die. If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. Please check the article again after few days.
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