The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember th… - Arthur C. Clarke

It is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer — one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

You do realize how many impossible things have to be true for that to have happened?