Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., 'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.' In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!
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Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.