Famous Quotes

Quotes by Arthur C Clarke

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
• Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
• I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
• I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
• 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.
• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
• 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.
• Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
• 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 best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
• The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
• This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.