Arthur C. Clarke Frases famosas
“Qualquer tecnologia suficientemente avançada é indistinguível da magia.”
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke escritor de ficção científica.; "3001: the final odyssey" - página 36, de Arthur C. Clarke - Ballantine Books, 1998, ISBN 0345423496, 9780345423498 - 274 páginas
Exploration of Space (1952)
“Pode ser que nosso destino nesse planeta não seja adorar a Deus, mas sim criá-Lo.”
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke em "The Mind of the Machine", conforme citado em "Humanitas", Volume 6 - Página 79, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 1970
Arthur Clarke, autor de 2001 – Uma Odisséia no Espaço, encasacado num calor de 40 graus para receber o título de Cavaleiro do Império Britânico, em uma cerimônia no Sri Lanka; citado em Revista Veja, Edição 1 652 -7/6/2000 http://veja.abril.com.br/070600/vejaessa.html
Arthur C. Clarke frases e citações
Arthur Clarke, Em sua obra "Perfil do Futuro"
“A única forma de descobrir os limites do possível é indo mais além deles, ao impossível.”
Variante: A única maneira de se definir os limites do possível é ir além dele, para o impossível.
Arthur C. Clarke: Frases em inglês
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, The Light of Other Days (2000), Ch. 6
Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
Fonte: 1970s, The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Ch. 11 “The Silent Princess”, p. 65
“People are people.” Bert shrugged.
“What you’re really saying is that people are animals,” Crane replied. “And I say to you, it doesn’t have to be that way. We can make a civilization, a real civilization, built on real understanding of ourselves and our universe.”
Fonte: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 20, “Shimani-Gashi” (p. 362)
“What we find incredible is the way that people - right up to the early 2000s!”
Fonte: 1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) p. 32
Contexto: calmly accepted behaviour we would consider atrocious. And believed in the most mindboggled... Nonsense, which surely any rational person would dismiss out of hand.' 'Examples, please.' 'Well... every year in some countries thousands of little girls were hideously mutilated to preserve their virginity? Many of them died - but the authorities turned a blind eye.' 'I agree that was terrible - but what could my government do about it?' 'A great deal - if it wished. But that would have offended the people who supplied it with oil and bought its weapons, like the landmines that killed and maimed civilians by the thousand.'
“So many people did it that it was no longer an obsession; it was a demographic.”
Fonte: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 4, “Geomorphological Processes” (p. 77)
“Of course, we in the so-called developed countries thought we were civilized.”
At least war wasn't respectable any more, and the United Nations was always doing its best to stop the wars that did break out.''Not very successfully: I'd give it about three out of ten.
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
Fonte: 1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 97, Acknowledgements
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 88, Epilogue
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 73
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
“All the religiosity around worries me—doesn’t it you?”
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 28, “The Ark” (p. 217)
“Such craziness captured media attention, but was fortunately still rare.”
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 27, “The Tin Lid” (p. 207)
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 24, “BDO” (p. 182)
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 9, “Lunar Descent” (p. 53)
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 49, “Areosynchronous” (p. 313)
“You do realize how many impossible things have to be true for that to have happened?”
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 29, “Alexei” (p. 187)
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 26, “The Stone Man” (p. 172)
“Slickness of presentation didn’t imply comprehensiveness of knowledge.”
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 13, “Fortress Sol” (p. 77)
Fonte: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Time's Eye (2003), Chapter 21, “Return to Jamrud” (p. 181)
Fonte: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 22, “Richter Ten” (p. 386)
“Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.”
Fonte: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 327)
Fonte: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 323)
Fonte: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 12, “Continental Drift” (p. 227)
Fonte: Exploration of Space (1952)