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Humor was the enemy of desire.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
Engineer
Explorer
Film Writer
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Science Fiction Writer
Scientist
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Minehead
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Arthur Charles Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
Charles Willis
Arthur Clarke
Humor
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Desire
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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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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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!
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Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.
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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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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
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I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
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