Arthur C. Clarke

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."

"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

"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."

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."