"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation."
"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistringuisable from magic."
"But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
"2001: A Space Odyssey (film, 1968) Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth."
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
"Training was one thing, reality another."
"hal: I can tell from your voice harmonics, Dave, that you’re badly upset. Why don’t you take a stress pill and get some rest?"
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"[Clarke's Laws:] 1. 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. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."
"Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it."
"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. When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervour and emotion—the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right."
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."
"Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls."
"32 It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation."
"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."