These are the quotations listed on his Wikipedia page:
Clarke's three laws
- "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
- "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"The truth, as always, will be far stranger."
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean."
Of UFOs: "They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth."
"Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy."
"We should always be prepared for future technologies, because otherwise they will come along and clobber us."
Of his epitaph: "I've often quoted it: 'He never grew up; but he never stopped growing.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
