"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.… - Arthur C. Clarke

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

He knew something of the emotion the artist must feel when his dreams become reality.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington ... I'm reasonably sure there must be life in this solar system, on Mars or on Europa, and other places. I think life is probably going to be ubiquitous, though we still don't have any proof of that yet — and still less, any proof of intelligent life anywhere. But I hope that will be coming in the next decade or so through radio astronomy or, perhaps, the discovery of objects in space which are obviously artificial. Astronomical engineering — that may be the other thing to look for.

His mistake was that he traded gods, science for Allah, and hence, traded goals without knowing it. He is as much a manufactured product of his religion as I am of mine, and as much a victim of it. But this is not about victims. Everybody's a victim. That's what Kate Masters prompted me to remember. Before it's done, we all lose everyone and everything that was ever important to us, and then we lose ourselves. We've got to get beyond our own victimhood and take the long view, the view to what we leave behind and what follows us.