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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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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I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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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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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
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Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
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No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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Now I understand,” said the last man.
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I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.
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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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Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
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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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The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.
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There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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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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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.
Arthur C. Clarke
