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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
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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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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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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.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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