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«The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.»
«Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| Keywords:
frustrating, hardware, manuals, software, the software
«It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.»
«The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| About:
Funny,
Honesty
| Keywords:
adjust, bathroom, for good measure, From Zero, income, income tax, income taxes, income tax return, scale, tax, tax return, zero, zeros
«Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| About:
Magic,
Technology
| Keywords:
advanced, Advanced Technology, indistinguishable, sufficiently, technology
«Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aware, demonstrated, disprove, disproved, disproving, followers, ignoring, tenet, tenets, Thor, Zeus
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Opinions,
Scientists
| Keywords:
distinguished, elderly, scientist
«Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all along, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, good idea, phrases, reaction, revolutionaries, revolutionary, stages, summed
«There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.»
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