Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Quotes to Explore
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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This is unproven technology, and if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't interact with tokens - from an investor and security perspective.
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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One with the law is a majority.
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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Donald Trump did not appear by magic.
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It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.
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As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
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Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.
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When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
