It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: intelligence survival
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: life qotd loneliness distance universe sense-of-wonder
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: motivational
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: news
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: psychology news
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
Arthur C. ClarkeThough the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: communication
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: art storytelling
The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: honor
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