Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.

There was nothing wrong, he reminded himself, with healthy fear; only when it escalated into panic did it become a killer.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

The timeless instant passed.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

The simplest solution is always best.