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Arthur C Clarke Quotes
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesnt want to give up power. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- Its completely impossible. 2- Its possible, but its not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
I dont believe in God but Im very interested in her. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
I dont believe in astrology; Im a Sagittarius and were skeptical. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
I dont pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesnt want to give up power. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Im sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. Im rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It cant be done. 2) It probably can be done, but its not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasnt come here. Well, it cant hide forever - one day we will overhear it. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Sometimes I think were alone in the universe, and sometimes I think were not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
The best measure of a mans honesty isnt his income tax return. Its the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
The greatest tragedy in mankinds entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
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