Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man’s quest for perfect communications.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“You see,” he said, “this little gadget is only a simple-minded cousin of Karl’s—and look what it’s done already. All these machines… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man’s quest for perfect communications.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew…Mars… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man’s quest for perfect communications.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share
