Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke