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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
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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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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
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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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Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
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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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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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Science demands patience.
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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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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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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
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