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Quotes About Development

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
This implies, of course, the development of a really compact and light-weight method of storing or producing electricity, at least an order of magnitude better than our present clumsy batteries. Such an invention has been overdue for about fifty years;
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
My father always said that you cannot graft a culture of science and engineering onto an Iron Age society. And so it's proving.' Bisesa studied him. 'You'll have to tell me about your father.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
And as for the Council—tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.' The
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The point, you see, is not the answers themselves, but the mental development we enjoy through striving for those answers.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Quando a era do gelo terminou, muitas coisas da vida primitiva do planeta também haviam terminado— inclusive os homens-macaco. Mas estes, diferentes de outros animais, tinham deixado descendentes. Não haviam sido simplesmente extintos, mas sim transformados. Os criadores de instrumentos foram recriados por seus próprios instrumentos.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Se necesita una educación muy mala para que el daño sea permanente.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
seem quaint and archaic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
That conflict: Technology as it develops is a prayer… but prayer is by definition a subversion of reason. There is no Loophole there.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Anything is better than stagnation.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My mind rebels at stagnation.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
in origine il cervello umano è come un attico vuoto che uno deve riempire con i mobili che preferisce.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.
~ Sherryl Woods
Teenagers are going to make mistakes, more than likely a lot of them. All we can do is be there to pick up the pieces, and hope they learn from them.
~ Sherryl Woods
He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports.
~ Shirley Hazzard
It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be.
~ Shirley Jackson
It's not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.
~ Shirley Jackson
Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly.
~ Shirley Jackson