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Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I’d hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “With no further clues, it might take the station Computer quite a while – perhaps as much as ten minutes – to locate the line in the whole body of English literature.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “And there still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of Love and Art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and Art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with Love.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every few days, but also swing through a velocity range of tens of kilometers a second. Anything like a regular schedule is out of the question; there are times when one must forget the whole idea and stay in port – or at least in orbit – waiting for the Solar System to rearrange itself for the greater convenience of Mankind.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “There’s an ancient philosophical joke that’s much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be?”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The room you are about to enter,” the Eagle said, setting up Nicole’s wheelchair, “is the largest single room in this domain. It is half a kilometer across at its widest point. Inside currently is a model of the Milky Way Galaxy.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Much had been lost during the centuries, for men seldom bother to preserve the commonplace articles of everyday life.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The eruption had hurled the thing out of its normal environment, deep down in the flaming atmosphere of the sun. It was a miracle that it had survived its journey through space; already it must be dying, as the forces that controlled its huge, invisible body lost their hold over the electrified gas which was the only substance it possessed.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Behind Alystra was the known world, full of wonder yet empty of surprise, drifting like a brilliant but tightly closed bubble down the river of time. Ahead, separated from her by no more than the span of a few footsteps, was the empty wilderness – the world of the desert – the world of the Invaders.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “For it was their world, not Man’s. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “We’re particularly anxious to get our hands on Pioneer 10 – the first man-made object to escape from the Solar System.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “And as for the Council – tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.’ The.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Tom hated to admit defeat, even in matters far less important than this. He believed that all problems could be solved if they were tackled in the right way, with the right equipment. This was a challenge to his scientific ingenuity; the fact that there were many lives involved was immaterial. Dr. Tom Lawson had no great use for human beings, but he did respect the Universe. This was a private fight between him and It.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “She was certain that it was wise to prevent Wilson and Brown from working closely together during sorties inside Rama. Nicole chastised herself for not having raised the issue with Borzov on her own. She realized that her mission portfolio included mental health as well, but somehow she had difficulty thinking of herself as the crew psychiatrist. I avoid it because it’s not an objective process, she thought. We have no sensors yet to measure good or bad mental health.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I hope you’re right. Apart from that, won’t there be trouble when he discovers what you’re trying to do? Because he will, you know.” “I’ll take that risk. Besides, we understand each other rather well.” The physicist toyed with his pencil and stared into space for a while. “It’s a very pretty problem. I like it,” he said simply. Then he dived into a drawer and produced an enormous writing pad, quite the biggest that Stormgren had ever seen.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “He broke open the first of the meal packets, and inspected it without enthusiasm. The name on the label – SPACETASTIES – was enough to put him off. And he had grave doubts about the promise printed underneath: ‘Guaranteed crumbless’.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way?”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “And just fifty years had separated the Wright Brothers from the first jet airliners.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “For the last time, David Bowman slept.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Hal’s internal fault predictor could have made a mistake.” “It’s more.”
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: “Apart from the jet-black sky, the photo might have been taken almost anywhere in the polar regions of Earth; there was nothing in the least alien about the sea of wrinkled ice that stretched all the way out to the horizon. Only the five space-suited figures in the foreground proclaimed that the panorama was of another world.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “No one worried except a few philosophers. The race was too intent upon savoring its new-found freedom to look beyond the pleasures of the present. Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias – boredom. Perhaps.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I would be greatly distressed if this book contributed still further to the seduction of the gullible, now cynically exploited by all the media.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “That’s still looking a long way ahead. For the present, you’re the only person who should attempt communication. Agreed, Captain?”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Men had sought beauty in many forms – in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space. All these media still survived in Diaspar and down the ages others had been added to them. No one was yet certain if all the possibilities of art had been discovered, or if it had any meaning outside the mind of Man. And the same was true of love.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “One hemisphere was a giant bull’s-eye, a series of concentric rings where solid rock had once flowed in kilometer-high ripples under some ancient hammer blow from space.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “Though that, surely, could not be its ultimate goal, it was aimed squarely at the Greater Magellanic Cloud, and the lonely gulfs beyond the Milky Way.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I thought this couldn’t happen in astronomy. Isn’t celestial mechanics supposed to be an exact science? So we poor backward biologists were always being told.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “CNN is one of the participants in the war. 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: “Suppose, in their altruistic passion for justice and order, they had determined to reform the world, but had not realized that they were destroying the soul of man?”
Arthur C. Clarke Quote: “I’ve just had an amusing flashback. All these creatures going in the same direction – they look like the commuters who used to surge back and forth twice a day between home and office, before electronics made it unnecessary.”
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