Arthur C. Clarke quotes - page 7

There may be a moral here. For the life of me I can't find it. (Arthur C. Clarke)
History, it has been said, never repeats itself but historical situations recur. View quote
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I doubt if such a word exists, and if it does, it shouldn't. View quote
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It is surprising how long it takes to do a simple addition when your life depends on the answer. View quote
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Why should one be afraid of something merely because it is strange? View quote
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So many people did it that it was no longer an obsession; it was a demographic. View quote
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Once you asked me about crime nowadays - I said any such interest pathological - maybe prompted by the endless sickening television programmes of your time - never able to watch more than few minutes myself... disgusting! View quote
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Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved. View quote
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Whatever godlike powers and principalities lurked beyond the stars, Poole reminded himself, for ordinary humans only two things were important - Love and Death. View quote
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Although Poole sometimes missed the cops-and-robbers dramas he had often enjoyed in his youth, he had grown to accept the current wisdom: excessive interest in pathological behaviour was itself pathological. View quote
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All the religiosity around worries me-doesn't it you? (Arthur C. Clarke)
Such craziness captured media attention, but was fortunately still rare. View quote
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Democracy is our most important possession. If we throw it away when the going gets tough, we might never get it back. View quote
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You know, we're not used to secrecy up here. It's not encouraged. We all have to work together to keep alive. Secrecy is corrosive, Professor, bad for morale. View quote
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Maybe it's a mark of a maturing culture, do you think, that secrets aren't kept, that truth is told, that things are talked out? View quote
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You do realize how many impossible things have to be true for that to have happened? View quote
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When the pious fools come up against the godless pagans who own Judea, the result is what might be called diplomatic incidents. View quote
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Slickness of presentation didn't imply comprehensiveness of knowledge. View quote
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We have no idea what waits for us out there. We did not choose this situation, and whatever manner of creature or accident has stranded us here did not take much notice of our welfare. I would say nice moral questions are beside the point, and that pragmatism is the order of the day. View quote
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Years compress like fault lines in the mind. While everything else changes, the mind remembers exactly what it wants to remember. A decade can be lost and a year seem like forever. View quote
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Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out. (Arthur C. Clarke)
People don't know what's good for them; they only know what they want. I learned to keep my expectations low a long time ago. It's good advice for anyone. View quote
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! View quote
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it. View quote
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I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software." In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive. View quote
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