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Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008

Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Arthur C. Clarke on life and death

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) “Foreword”

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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
“Los Angeles Free Press” Interview (April 25 1969, p. 43)
- Work
Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
“The Mind of the Machine” in Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations (1972)
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 187
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