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

— Isaac Asimov

Variant: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. Časopis LIFE, január 1984

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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