The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.
Arthur C. Clarke