Arthur C. Clarke

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "

"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. "

"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. "

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. "

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

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. "

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. "

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. "

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. "

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. "

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. "