Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

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

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

No particular technology lasts for long.

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.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

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

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology, machines is really, you know, arguably the most important thing that's happened to humanity in terms of our living standards. You could look to the introduction of digital computers in the 1950s.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

... life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.