Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

 

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke  (1917 – 2008) British science fiction author.

 

  • Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!
  • How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
  • I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
  • I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
  • I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future.
  • 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.
  • I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
  • It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
  • Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy.
  • Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
  • Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
  • The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents
  • The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
  • We should always be prepared for future technologies, because otherwise they will come along and clobber us.
  • We should be less concerned about adding years to life, and more about adding life to years.

 

Published Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:38 AM by dhite
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