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
morning taken technology
Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.
believe thinking self
I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.
reality path use
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
judging deeds judge-me
Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
beauty moving heart
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
book thinking ideas
When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
years anticipation has-beens
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
future boys destiny
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.
thinking space sea
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
heart giving singh
Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
ideas missing conservative
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.
depressing communication mean
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
communication science years
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]
baby men thinking
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.