3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
