Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Quotes

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

- Arthur C. Clarke

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

- Arthur C. Clarke

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

- Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

- Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

- Arthur C. Clarke

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

- Arthur C. Clarke

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

- Arthur C. Clarke

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

- Arthur C. Clarke

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