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Computers
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Fear
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Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all alone
And draw upon my face your mark.
How is it that you capture me,
When all my thoughts deny your force?
Is it the reptile in my brain
That lets your terror run its course?
Baseless Fear undoes us all
Despite our quest for lofty goals.
We would-be Galahads don't die,
Fear just freezes all our souls.
It keeps us mute when feeling love,
Reminding us what we might lose.
And if by chance we meet success,
Fear tells us which safe route to choose.
-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama Revealed
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Ideas
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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Intelligence
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Potential
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Science
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Secrets
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In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
with Michael Kube-McDowell
-Arthur C. Clarke, The Trigger
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Technology
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Books by and about Arthur C. Clarke