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Arthur C. Clarke, właśc. sir Arthur Charles Clarke – brytyjski prozaik, pisarz fantastycznonaukowy, propagator kosmonautyki. M.in. na podstawie jego koncepcji powstały stacje orbitalne.

Jego najbardziej znanym dziełem jest książka 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna oraz nakręcony przez Stanleya Kubricka film o tym samym tytule według wspólnego scenariusza Clarke’a i Kubricka. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Grudzień 1917 – 19. Marzec 2008   •   Natępne imiona Arthur Charles Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke Fotografia
Arthur C. Clarke: 218   Cytatów 1   Polubienie

Arthur C. Clarke słynne cytaty

„To jest puste, ciągnie się w nieskończoność i… O mój Boże, tam jest pełno gwiazd!”

ostatnie słowa nadane na Ziemię przez Davida Bowmana.
Odyseja Kosmiczna 2001

Arthur C. Clarke cytaty

„Minkowski spacetime.”

The Light of Other Days

„Nie chciałbym się upierać, Dave, ale ja jestem niezdolny do popełniania omyłek.”

Postać: HAL 9000
Odyseja Kosmiczna 2001

„Dostatecznie zaawansowana technologia nie różni się od magii.”

Źródło: Gregory Hartley, Maryann Karinch, Podręcznik manipulacji, Warszawa 2011, wyd. Bellona, s. 65.

Arthur C. Clarke: Cytaty po angielsku

“Science demands patience.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka Światło minionych dni

Źródło: 2000s and posthumous publications, The Light of Other Days (2000), Ch. 6

“I am the King.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka The Fountains of Paradise

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.
Źródło: 1970s, The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Ch. 11 “The Silent Princess”, p. 65

“That’s what I think they’re doing, eating themselves alive. They murder in the name of God and blindly destroy the very ecosystem that sustains them.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka Richter 10

“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.”
Źródło: 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!”

Źródło: 1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) p. 32
Kontekst: 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.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka Richter 10

Źródło: 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)

“All the religiosity around worries me—doesn’t it you?”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 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.”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 27, “The Tin Lid” (p. 207)

“Democracy is our most important possession. If we throw it away when the going gets tough, we might never get it back.”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 24, “BDO” (p. 182)

“You know, we’re not used to secrecy up here. It’s not encouraged. We all have to work together to keep alive. Secrecy is corrosive, Professor, bad for morale.”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 9, “Lunar Descent” (p. 53)

“Maybe it’s a mark of a maturing culture, do you think, that secrets aren’t kept, that truth is told, that things are talked out?”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 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?”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 29, “Alexei” (p. 187)

“When the pious fools come up against the godless pagans who own Judea, the result is what might be called diplomatic incidents.”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 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.”

Arthur C. Clarke A Time Odyssey

Źródło: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 13, “Fortress Sol” (p. 77)

“Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka Richter 10

Źródło: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 327)

“Man's bodily functions moved only toward death, but the mind could continue to enrich itself even as everything else embraced entropy.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka Richter 10

Źródło: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 323)

“People don't know what's good for them; they only know what they want. I learned to keep my expectations low a long time ago. It's good advice for anyone.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka Richter 10

Źródło: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 12, “Continental Drift” (p. 227)

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