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
incompetence attributes malevolence
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
children ice fire
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
technology listening doe
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime
morning lessons firsts
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
movie doors great-year
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
gravity comfortable seats
Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
art rocks dragons
There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.
life time dark
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!
careers space imagination
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
intelligent long long-time
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.
girl dark feelings
The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
men synthesis machines
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?
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.
sex reading computer
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.