Arthur C. Clarke Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.”

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”

“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.”

“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.”

“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”

“We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?”

“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”

“Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.”

“The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.”