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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
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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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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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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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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.
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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
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