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"Now I'll never know if I was right."
-- final words of Adric, in Dr. Who, "Earthshock", on realizing that he's about to crash into the Earth
I think that might need some context - was his prediction that he would die on crashing or something?
The specifics of what he was doing aren't important. (He had been trying to break an encrypted password-equivalent to the flight control computer, and had just entered in what he believed to be the solution, when the computer was destroyed, leaving him facing certain death.)
I just like the idea that what upset him most about dying was that he wouldn't be able to finish the problem he was working on.