Sir Arthur C Clarke

“ I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long. ”

– Arthur C Clarke

“ My favourite definition of an intellectual: ‘Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. ”

– Arthur C Clarke

“ I don’t believe in astrology. I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. ”

– Arthur C Clarke

“ There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly’s wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. ”

– Arthur C Clarke

“ This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ”

– Arthur C Clarke

“ A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible—indeed, inevitable—the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. ”

– Arthur C Clarke