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
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.
nature science law
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
wish fiction stories
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
long sloth needs
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.
forecasts
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
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.
stranger
The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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.
wells ifs
For if not true, they are well imagined...
intelligent space proof
The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
zero honesty funny-life
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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.
science may lasts
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
communication technology important
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.