Arthur C. Clarke
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9 quotes we’ve traced to Arthur C. Clarke
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Attributed“Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be”
Attributed“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean”
Attributed“I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical”
Attributed“The space elevator will be built ten years after everyone stops laughing”
Attributed“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying”
Attributed“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”
Attributed“The best proof that there's intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn't come here”
Disputed“Who are the people most opposed to escapism? Jailers!”
DisputedNot actually Arthur C. Clarke
Often misattributed to Arthur C. Clarke
Famous lines widely pinned on Arthur C. Clarke that we’ve traced to someone else.
“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society”
actually Isaac Asimov
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run”
actually Roy Amara
“Where else can you find a non-linear servo-mechanism weighing only 150 pounds that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor?”
actually Albert Scott Crossfield
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