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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.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
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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.
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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
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Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
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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.
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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
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