Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRASwas a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 December 1917
funny science ideas
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
moving technology people
The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.
forecasts
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
broken mind statistics
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
real intelligent minorities
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
relationship secret encounters
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
thought-provoking youth wonderful
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
trying fiction science-fiction
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
dream stars inspiration
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.
gravity comfortable seats
Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
movie doors great-year
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
morning lessons firsts
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
sun hundred billions
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
mother children farewell
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.