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Future Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
- One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the…
- Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
- Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was…
- Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance…
- The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
- The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous…
- The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
- Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the…
- Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle…
- Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing…
- Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before…
- I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has…
- The goal of the future is full unemployment
- The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their…
- I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
- There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,…
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- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba