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Technology Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.
- Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.
- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
- Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
- No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
- Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the…
- The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
- Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
- Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom,…
- 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he…
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- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
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