Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

Quotes

• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

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

• But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

• We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.

• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

• CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

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

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

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.