Category: Quotes

1°) Who is the author? Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is a British science fiction writer whom you are surely familiar with through one of his most famous works, namely 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scientist and inventor, he also worked on technological concepts, in particular geostationary communication satellites, the concept of which he originated. 2°) Context of the quote From a temporal point of view, he is said to have made this quote for the first time in 1969 in a newspaper interview in relation to 2001: A Space Odyssey. He repeated it in another interview a few...