Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.
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I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!
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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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Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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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.