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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a6b4b2 | There was awe, and there was also incredulity--sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c90c91e | No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges--absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV! | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d14c6f5 | Don't forget, as you enjoy your mild spring days and peaceful summer evenings, how lucky you are to live in the temperate region of the Solar System, where the air never freezes and the rocks never melt... Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| cf18bb8 | They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 90d145b | That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, .. | passivity world | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 28c5f06 | You will find men like him in all the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| e3e987e | Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 88c450f | The dismantling of the vast and wholly parasitic armaments industry had given an unprecedented--sometimes, indeed, unhealthy--boost to the world economy. No longer were vital raw materials and brilliant engineering talents swallowed up in a virtual black hole--or, even worse, turned to destruction. Instead, they could be used to repair the ravages and neglect of centuries, by rebuilding the world. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| edb2422 | all that he had ever been, at every moment of his life, was being transferred to safer keeping. Even as one David Bowman ceased to exist, another became immortal. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| f3724fa | Could we go into your room?" she asked. "I knew it. I knew it," he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. "It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is going to declare her undying affection" | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 580d4c5 | Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity. | gravity | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| f823469 | And eventually even the brain might go. As the seat of consciousness, it was not essential; the development of electronic intelligence had proved that. The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis.... But | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 64fb5f9 | All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 362d243 | a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. | mind | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 9aef405 | Tom hated to admit defeat, even in matters far less important than this. He believed that all problems could be solved if they were tackled in the right way, with the right equipment. This was a challenge to his scientific ingenuity; the fact that there were many lives involved was immaterial. Dr. Tom Lawson had no great use for human beings, but he did respect the Universe. This was a private fight between him and It. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| aa51465 | Moon-Watcher and his companions had no recollection of what they had seen, after the crystal had ceased to cast its hypnotic spell over their minds and to experiment with their bodies. The next day, as they went out to forage, they passed it with scarcely a second thought; it was now part of the disregarded background of their lives. They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 4bb9d13 | No electronic computer can match the human brain at associating apparently irrelevant facts. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d25751f | A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world. | learning persistence success | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| db1b7cf | No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d4ed179 | Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 05acd23 | The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c4b62a3 | Discovery was no longer a happy ship. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 6385cbc | Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed--and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him... Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 07ce1e8 | Any man who had ever worked in a hardened missile site would have felt at home in Clavius. Here on the Moon were the same arts and hardware of underground living, and of protection against a hostile environment; but here they had been turned to the purposes of peace. After ten thousand years, Man had at last found something as exciting as war. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 215a98f | He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved. | humanity | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 7fa06aa | The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d9d9f7d | It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was all over. It was like jumping out the window and landing on the street. A quick ride, just like that. | sex | David Goodis | |
| f318752 | A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away. | streets urban | David Goodis | |
| ca9979d | The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons. | bougainvillea flowers games-at-twilight magenta purple | Anita Desai | |
| f480801 | Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July. | Anita Desai | ||
| c639cb6 | Just then, Larry recalled a conversation he had with a friend in Ireland, about the situation in Nepal between the King and the Maoists. The friend was sided with the Maoists, which was more or less his political leanings in any case, and stated that at least they were trying to help the people. So Larry had remarked upon the rising death rate, and how the Maoists are just as brutal as the security forces, yet the friend simply shrugged and.. | maoists people-s-lives politics revolt | Andrew James Pritchard | |
| b6a141e | He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry. | Stephen King | ||
| 34cc90a | S x E)T = R ([Strategy times Execution] multiplied by Trust equals Results) | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| e5c3e68 | The sacred rowan is a woman born long, long ago, a woman whose refusal to see love cost first her lover's life, then the lives of her family, her clan, her people. But not her own life. Not quite. In pity and punishment she was turned into an undying tree, a rowan that weeps only in the presence of transcendent love; and the tears of the rowan are blossoms that confer extraordinary grace upon those who can see them. When enough tears are we.. | Elizabeth Lowell | ||
| 686b858 | They were so focused on the mechanics and the process that they never looked at the problem holistically. In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1205ce4 | Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d17176d | We need a better guide to facing giants--and there is no better place to start that journey than with the epic confrontation between David and Goliath three thousand years ago in the Valley of Elah. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3ff8e6b | Don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a976c63 | Underdog strategies are hard. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 8458413 | Narcissists typically make judgments with greater confidence than other people... and, because their judgments are rendered with such conviction, other people tend to believe them and the narcissists become disproportionately more influential in group situations. Finally, because of their self-confidence and strong need for recognition, narcissists tend to "self-nominate"; consequently, when a leadership gap appears in a group or organizati.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 98c49da | Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1e09d2c | I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 845c5ff | Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to .. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 607a63a | But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge. | brandi-bates fiction frederick-douglass knowledge los-angeles marcel remains-to-be-seen urban wisdom | Brandi L. Bates |