Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to dovetail our technologies - our brains to our tools. With the Industrial Revolution, we transcended the limits of our muscles. With the digital revolution, we transcend the limits of our minds.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.