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
Arthur C. Clarke quotes about
people laughing miracle
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen,
intelligent space proof
The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
fighting men hair
Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.
mean body offense
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
enemy desire
Humor was the enemy of desire.
wells ifs
For if not true, they are well imagined...
nature science law
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
sex reading computer
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
stars eye heaven
Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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.