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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.

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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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
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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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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
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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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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
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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.
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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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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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The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.
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