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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If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.
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The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.
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One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
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I think the board and the school are really wanting not to forgo the historic mission, which is to train Christian leaders, but also to prepare students to carry out their ministry in the context of the world as it is today and to prepare them for contemporary situations.
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On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
