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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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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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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 have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
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Science demands patience.
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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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I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.
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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
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The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop
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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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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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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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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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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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