Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Sex, Reading, Computer

  "The Odyssey File". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

• Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never predict what will happen, particularly in politics and economics. You can to some extent predict in the technological sphere - flying, space travel, but even there we missed badly on some things, like computers. No one imagined the incredible impact of computers, even though robot brains of various kinds but the idea that one day every house would have a computer in every room and that one day we'd have computers built into our clothing, nobody ever thought of that.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  House, Flying, What If

  Source: www.salon.com

• The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dinosaurs, Weapons, Changing Environment

  "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (Foreword)". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 2000.

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