Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

No Utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart. Jan

The choice had been made. The bomb was already looking ahead, to the terminus of its new trajectory.

As crianças crescem depressa neste ambiente de baixa gravidade. Mas não envelhecem na mesma proporção e assim viverão mais do que nós.

Lo que la naturaleza puede hacer, también el hombre lo hace, a su modo.

Diga-me, você gostaria de ir para a Terra? Seus olhos arregalaram-se de espanto e ela negou resolutamente, sacudindo a cabeça. — É um lugar ruim. A gente se machuca quando cai.

En ese momento, mientras su corazón anhelaba lo inalcanzable, tomó una decisión. Supo entonces qué haría con su vida.

You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them—will never even be able to communicate with their minds.

Please move forward," the voice had interrupted.

We obtained another guinea pig, chloroformed it, and sent it through the transmitter. To our delight, it revived. We immediately had it killed and stuffed for the benefit of posterity. You can see it in the museum with the rest of our apparatus.

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth—learning and loving. Nothing else—not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake—can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

Wydaje mi siÄ™, ?e jednÄ… z przyczyn, dla których uciekam w przyszÅ'o??, jest moja niecierpliwo??. ChcÄ™ ujrze? rezultaty tego, co zapoczÄ…tkowaÅ'eÅ›, ale jednoczeÅ›nie pragnÄ™ przeskoczy? etapy poÅ›rednie, które jak podejrzewam, nie bÄ™dÄ… przyjemne.

ne of the most noticeable changes had been a slowing down of the mad tempo that had so characterized the twentieth century. Life was more leisurely than it had been for generations. It therefore had less zest for the few, but more tranquility for the many. Western man had relearned what the rest of the world had never forgotten; That there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

The simplest solution is always best.

La primera existencia era un precioso don que jamás se volvía a repetir. Era maravilloso contemplar la vida por primera vez, como en la frescura de la aurora.

Nowhere in Rama had there been any trace of artistic expression; everything was purely functional. Perhaps the Ramans felt that they already knew the ultimate secrets of the universe, and were no longer haunted by the yearnings and aspirations that drove mankind.

The Firstborn probably believed that in their universal cauterization they were being benevolent.

Üretim büyük ölçüde otomatikleÅŸmiÅŸti. Robotlar?n iÅŸlettiÄŸi fabrikalar ard? arkas? kesilmeyen tüketim mallar? üretiyordu; böylece yaÅŸam için gereken her ÅŸey neredeyse bedava olmuÅŸtu. Ä°nsanlar art?k istedikleri lükslere sahip olabilmek için çal???yordu. Ya da hiç çal??m?yordu.

Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting

Two possibility exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged again into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, as the ocean swallows a rain-drop.

He was not the first man, Cliff Leyland told himself bitterly, to know the exact second and the precise manner of his death.

Cuando la belleza es universal pierde su poder de conmovernos, y sólo su falta logra producir algún efecto emocional.

Kalevala, whereas