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Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “There is something very strange about a universe where a few dead butterflies can balance a billion-ton tower.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: “Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “They found it hard to imagine the smog-choked cities of the Twentieth Century, and the waste, greed, and appalling environmental disasters of the Oil Age.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten – that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “That suggested two possibilities. It was either too unintelligent to understand him – or it was very intelligent indeed, with its own powers of choice and volition. In that case, he must treat it as an equal. Even then he might underestimate it – but it would bear him no resentment, for conceit was not a vice from which robots often suffered.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “No need to go to the dolphins,” interjected Max Brailovsky. “One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he’d won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The dismantling of the vast and wholly parasitic armaments industry had given an unprecedented – sometimes, indeed, unhealthy – boost to the world economy. No longer were vital raw materials and brilliant engineering talents swallowed up in a virtual black hole – or, even worse, turned to destruction. Instead, they could be used to repair the ravages and neglect of centuries, by rebuilding the world.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The time has come,” said Dr. Dimitri Moisevitch to his old friend Heywood Floyd, “to talk of many things. Of shoes and spaceships and sealing wax, but mostly of monoliths and malfunctioning computers.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “There was little work left of a routine, mechanical nature. Men’s minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform. There were factories that ran for weeks without being visited by a single human being. Men were needed for trouble-shooting, for making decisions, for planning new enterprises. The robots did the rest.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “A feeling of foreboding, and, indeed, of physical as well as psychological discomfort, had come over him. He suddenly recalled – and this did nothing at all to help – a phrase he had once come across: “Someone is walking over your grave.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I’ve been saying for a long time that I’m hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Bose was slightly less happy about the presence of Conrad Taylor, the celebrated anthropologist, who had made his reputation by uniquely combining scholarship and eroticism in his study of puberty rites in late-twentieth-century Beverly Hills.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The history of the Universe must be a mass of such disconnected threads, and no one could say which were important and which were trivial.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Discovery was no longer a happy ship.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity – or, at the worst, bad manners.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Myron, like countless NCO’s before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “If we are unable to download, remember us.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Somehow, he was not in the least surprised, nor was he alarmed. On the contrary, he felt a sense of calm expectation, such as he had once known when the space medics had tested him with hallucinogenic drugs. The world around him was strange and wonderful, but there was nothing to fear.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “That first Prime Monitor,” he said, “was sent by the Creator, from another dimension of the early universe, into our evolving space-time system.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Though he had a devoted coterie of fans who subscribed to his information service – in an earlier age, he would have been called a pop scientist – he had an even larger circle of critics. The kinder ones considered that he had been educated beyond his intelligence. The others labeled him a self-employed idiot. It.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Training was one thing, reality another.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The piece of equipment I’m most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “They were not in the least deterred when a celebrated Washington humorist claimed that his calculations proved that the world ended on December 31, 1999 – but that everyone had had too much of a hangover to notice.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “First rule of government of the people, by the people, for the people: Never tell the people!”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “You will find men like him in all the world’s religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Hal in full control of the ship. The.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Many scientists flatly denied the possibility. They pointed out that Discovery, the fastest ship ever designed, would take twenty thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri – and millions of years to travel any appreciable distance across the Galaxy. Even if, during the centuries to come, propulsion systems improved out of all recognition, in the end they would meet the impassable barrier of the speed of light, which no material object could exceed.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Well, that’s a relief. You know that I have the greatest possible enthusiasm for this mission.” “I’m sure of it. Now please let me have.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters, threats of conflict, gloomy editorials – these still seemed to be the main concern of the millions of words being sprayed into the ether. Yet Floyd also wondered if this was altogether.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong?”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The sign of its passing was written there upon the sky as if a giant hand had drawn a piece of chalk across the blue dome of heaven. Even as they watched, the gleaming vapor trail began to fray at the edges, breaking up into wisps of cloud, until it seemed that a bridge of snow had been thrown from horizon to horizon.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “You can’t have action without reaction.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.”
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