The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
¶ (Attributed)
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) British writer
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
¶ (Attributed)
also attrib. Abraham Maslow
Look, Dave ... I can see you're really upset about this .... I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly .... Take a stress pill, and think things over.
¶ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
(with Stanley Kubrick)
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.
¶ Profiles of the Future, "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" (Clarke's First Law) (1962; rev. 1973)
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
¶ Profiles of the Future, "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" (Clarke's Second Law) (1962; rev. 1973)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
¶ Profiles of the Future, "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" (Clarke's Third Law) (1962; rev. 1973)
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