Frasi di Arthur C. Clarke (218 frasi, pagina 5)

As quoted in the [Sri Lanka] Sunday Times (31 December 2000) http://www.sundaytimes.lk/001231/news4.html <br class="br">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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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"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.”

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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.”

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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 <br class="br">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.”

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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.”

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Arthur C. Clarke libro The Light of Other Days

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

“Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!”

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Electronic Tutors (1980)
1980s