Quotes About Progress

Fifty years is ample time to change the world and it's people almost beyond recognition. All that I'd required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal- and power.

Hal remained a low-grade moron.

Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic

Ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear had virtually ceased to exist.

Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform.

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope towards a future.

Good morning, Colonel Tooke. This is Athena. I am ready for my first lesson.

With the historic abolition of long-distance charges on 31 December 2000, every telephone call became a local one, and the human race greeted the new millennium by transforming itself into one huge, gossiping family. Like

Arthur C. Clarke

Pelos padrões das eras passadas, era a Utopia. A ignorância, a doença, a pobreza e o medo haviam praticamente deixado de existir. A lembrança da guerra se desvanecia no passado, como um pesadelo que se dissolve com a alvorada. Em breve, ela estaria fora da experiência de qualquer pessoa viva.

Any fool could shuffle genes and most did.

throughout the flight, but there

Orice tehnologie suficient de avansat? nu poate fi deosebit? de magie.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them.

Verdaderamente que esa palabra de periódico resultaba un anacrónico pegote en la era de la electrónica. El texto era puesto al momento automáticamente cada hora

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction, Nicole said to herself. Not even when confronted by infinity.

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word newspaper, of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.)

to understand the future, it was necessary to know the past.

But they knew in their hearts that once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… Childhood's End - Ch. 15

The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

Someone once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

When his type vanished, if it ever did, the world would be a safer but less interesting place.

British Interplanetary Society.

Miraculous though they were—perhaps the supreme triumph of the science that had produced them—they were the creations of a sick culture, a culture that had been afraid of many things.