Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey Quotes

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.