Arthur C Clarke Famous Quotes
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering."
"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke Quotations
"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional."
George Herbert Walker Bush
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.
Charles De Gaulle
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
Edward Verall Lucas
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
"Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
Chester Bowles
We heed no instincts but our own.
Jean de La Fontaine
Good friends are good for your health.
Dr Irwin Sarason
"Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something."
Plato