Biografia

His "Foundation" series won the Hugo award for "Best all-time series" in 1966, beating J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".

He is the only author to have a published book in every Dewey Decimal library category apart from Philosophy.

Is famous for penning "The Three Laws of Robotics".

It has recently been admitted by Janet Jeppson Asimov, his wife, that Isaac acquired HIV during a bypass operation in 1983. 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. Clarke.

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 100 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."