Arthur C. Clarke Long Quotations

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

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.