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Arthur C. Clarke

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate December 16, 1917

Zodiac Sagittarius

Location Minehead,

Country England

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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

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Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

Tags: evolution

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

Tags: depravity evolution

But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.

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Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Tags: future optimism

Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

Tags: communication

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

Tags: theology

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

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The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.

Tags: honor

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best

science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction

writer

Tags: humor

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

Tags: storytelling

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