Appearance Quote by Arthur C. Clarke Download Open image “Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appearance Magic Technology Theatre
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be… — Marco Tempest 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 is the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Dr. Walter Bishop Copy Share Image
My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. — Trevor Baylis 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You can have a nice body, dress with the latest fashion. But if you don't have self-confidence sweetheart, forget about looking sexy, you can't… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Appearance records are pretty special. Mine means a lot to me, not only because I love stats, but because it shows that I am… — David James Copy Share Image
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