1. Frasi
  2. Autori
  3. Arthur C. Clarke

Frasi di Arthur C. Clarke
pagina 5

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke è stato un autore di fantascienza e inventore britannico.

È noto ai più per il suo romanzo 2001: Odissea nello spazio del 1968, cresciuto assieme alla sceneggiatura del film omonimo realizzato con il regista Stanley Kubrick ed ispirato al racconto breve La sentinella dello stesso Clarke. Lo scrittore ha però al suo attivo una produzione letteraria assai estesa, tra cui la celebre serie di Rama. È considerato un autore di fantascienza hard o "classica", dato che una caratteristica saliente dei suoi romanzi è l'attenzione per la verosimiglianza scientifica.

In suo onore l'orbita geostazionaria della Terra è stata chiamata "Fascia di Clarke". Egli infatti fu il primo ad ipotizzare, in un articolo pubblicato nel 1945, l'utilizzo dell'orbita geostazionaria per i satelliti dedicati alle telecomunicazioni. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Dicembre 1917 – 19. Marzo 2008   •   Altri nomi Arthur Charles Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke photo
Arthur C. Clarke: 218   frasi 3   Mi piace

Arthur C. Clarke frasi celebri

“Il sistema solare comprende il Sole, Giove e detriti vari.”

Arthur C. Clarke

da 2061: Odissea tre

“Ogni tecnologia sufficientemente avanzata è indistinguibile dalla magia.”

Arthur C. Clarke

da Profiles of the Future, Harper & Row, 1958
Origine: Citato anche in 3001: Odissea finale e in R. Kelly, The Box.

“Lenin è stato sfortunato; è nato cent'anni troppo presto. Il comunismo sovietico avrebbe potuto funzionare, almeno per un po', se avesse avuto un microchip. E sarebbe riuscito a evitare Stalin.”

Arthur C. Clarke libro 3001: Odissea finale

3001: Odissea finale

“L'unica maniera di scoprire i limiti del possibile è di oltrepassarli e finire nell'impossibile.”

Arthur C. Clarke

da Profiles of the Future

“Dietro ogni uomo oggi vivente stanno trenta spettri, poiché questo è il rapporto con il quale i morti superano il numero dei vivi. Dagli albori del tempo, grosso modo cento miliardi di uomini hanno camminato sul pianeta Terra. Orbene, è questo un numero interessante, in quanto, per una coincidenza bizzarra, esistono approssimativamente cento miliardi di stelle nel nostro universo locale, la Via Lattea. Così, per ogni uomo che abbia vissuto, in questo universo splende una stella.”

Arthur C. Clarke libro 2001: Odissea nello spazio

premessa
2001: Odissea nello spazio

Arthur C. Clarke Frasi e Citazioni

“classical Hohmann orbit”

Arthur C. Clarke libro 2010: Odissea due

2010: Odyssey Two

Questa traduzione è in attesa di revisione. È corretto?

“Ora sono un esperto scientifico; ciò significa che non so nulla di assolutamente tutto.”

Arthur C. Clarke
Questa traduzione è in attesa di revisione. È corretto?

“Inoltre, avevano fatto il primo passo verso un'amicizia genuina. Si erano scambiati vulnerabilità.”

Arthur C. Clarke
Sull'amicizia
Questa traduzione è in attesa di revisione. È corretto?

“Più meravigliosi sono i mezzi di comunicazione, più i suoi contenuti sembrano essere banali, osceni o deprimenti.”

Arthur C. Clarke
Comunicazione
Questa traduzione è in attesa di revisione. È corretto?

“Non faccio finta di avere tutte le risposte. Ma vale sicuramente la pena pensare alle domande ...”

Arthur C. Clarke
Domanda

Arthur C. Clarke: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

"Appendix II: MITE for Morons," The Odyssey File (1984), p. 123
On Clarke's Laws

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

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

As quoted in the [Sri Lanka] Sunday Times (31 December 2000) http://www.sundaytimes.lk/001231/news4.html
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done — and was about to do.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Fountains of Paradise

Origine: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 39 “The Wounded Sun” (p. 208)

“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.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

Foreword to The Collected Stories (June 2000)
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Fountains of Paradise

Origine: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 16 “Conversations with Starglider” (p. 96)

“If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The City and the Stars

Origine: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 2 (p. 13)

“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

"Credo" (1991); also in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Essays, 1934-1998 (1999), p. 360
1990s

“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

Quoted in And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 279
1990s

“2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

As quoted in "Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90" by Ravi Nessman in the Associated Press (18 March 2008) http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfE8qUikNEG6MVWqYku2k8BD_RcgD8VG4VI00
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Fountains of Paradise

Origine: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 10 “The Ultimate Bridge” (p. 52)

“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.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Light of Other Days

Origine: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 26

“Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Fountains of Paradise

Origine: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 35 “Starglider Plus Eighty” (p. 190)

“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

Attributed to Clarke on the internet, this has also been attributed to Isaac Asimov in published works.
Disputed

“It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The City and the Stars

Origine: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 24 (p. 183)

“One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Fountains of Paradise

Origine: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 43 “Fail-Safe” (p. 223)

“All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
1980s

“The fates could not possibly be so malevolent, now that he had only a few hundred meters to go.
He was whistling in the dark, of course. How many aircraft had crashed at the very edge of the runway, after safely crossing an ocean? How many times had machines or muscles failed when there were only millimeters to go? Every possible piece of luck, bad as well as good, happened to somebody, somewhere. He had no right to expect any special treatment.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Fountains of Paradise

Origine: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 53 “Fade-Out” (pp. 272-273)

“There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The City and the Stars

Origine: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 5 (p. 37)

“The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

Space and the Spirit of Man (1965)

“To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away — and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“If I may be allowed just three wishes, they would be these.
Firstly, I would like to see some evidence of extra-terrestrial life. I have always believed that we are not alone in the universe. But we are still waiting for ETs to call us — or give us some kind of a sign. We have no way of guessing when this might happen — I hope sooner rather than later!
Secondly, I would like to see us kick our current addiction to oil, and adopt clean energy sources. … Climate change has now added a new sense of urgency. Our civilisation depends on energy, but we can't allow oil and coal to slowly bake our planet…
The third wish is one closer to home. I’ve been living in Sri Lanka for 50 years — and half that time, I’ve been a sad witness to the bitter conflict that divides my adopted country.
I dearly wish to see lasting peace established in Sri Lanka as soon as possible.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

90th Birthday Reflections (2007)

“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The Light of Other Days

Origine: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 5

“All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro The City and the Stars

Origine: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 23 (pp. 174-175)

“Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro Glide Path

Glide Path (1963) Chapter 27
1960s

“Our age is in many ways unique, full of events and phenomena that never occurred before and can never happen again. They distort our thinking, making us believe that what is true now will be true forever, though perhaps on a larger scale. Because we have annihilated distance on this planet, we imagine that we can do it once again. The facts are otherwise, and we see them more clearly if we forget the present and turn our minds towards the past.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

1960s, We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

1960s, We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“He had wished to convince himself that Comarre was evil. Now he knew that it was not. There would always be, even in Utopia, some for whom the world had nothing to offer but sorrow and disillusion.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke

The Lion of Comarre, p. 151
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 170
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“A single neutron begins the chain-reaction that in an instant can destroy a million lives and the toil of generations. Equally insignificant and unimportant are the trigger-events which can sometimes change a man’s course of action and so alter the whole pattern of his future.”

Help us translate this quote
Arthur C. Clarke libro Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 181
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

Autori simili

Robert Anson Heinlein photo
Robert Anson Heinlein 155
autore di fantascienza statunitense
George R. R. Martin photo
George R. R. Martin 240
autore di fantascienza statunitense
Frank Herbert photo
Frank Herbert 121
scrittore di fantascienza
Guglielmo Marconi photo
Guglielmo Marconi 4
fisico e inventore italiano
Isaac Asimov photo
Isaac Asimov 33
biochimico e scrittore statunitense
Carl Sagan photo
Carl Sagan 39
astronomo e scrittore statunitense
Steve Jobs photo
Steve Jobs 19
imprenditore, informatico e inventore statunitense
Clive Staples Lewis photo
Clive Staples Lewis 50
scrittore e filologo britannico
Nikola Tesla photo
Nikola Tesla 24
fisico, inventore e ingegnere serbo naturalizzato statunite…
Archibald Joseph Cronin photo
Archibald Joseph Cronin 33
scrittore britannico