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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke
Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible
Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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.

Arthur C. Clarke
Learning, Technology, Perception
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Differences, Machines

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Arthur C. Clarke
Science, Technology, Numbers

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

Arthur C. Clarke
Science, Technology, Practice
Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.13, Hachette UK

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Long, Term

Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Years, America

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Arthur C. Clarke
Communication, Technology, Important

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke
Past, Technology, Impossible Things
Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

Arthur C. Clarke
Moving, Technology, People

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Magic, Advanced Technology

The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.

Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Listening, Doe
"Credo". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke (1991), later published in Arthur C. Clarke "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998" (p. 360), 1990.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Arthur C. Clarke
Morning, Taken, Technology

I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.

Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Thinking, Magic
Source: www.avclub.com

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Magic, Theatre

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