Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

If children have interests, then education happens.

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.