Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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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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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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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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My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.
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I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.
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I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.
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My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
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Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I imagine that's going to be true for same-sex marriages - that people's emotional comfort level with it will not fully materialize for decades.
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
