It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

—Arthur C. Clarke

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run—and often in the short one—the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

—Arthur C. Clarke

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

—Arthur C. Clarke

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved—if it can be achieved at all—within the next few hundred years.

—Arthur C. Clarke

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

—Lynn Johnston

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

—Bill Watterson

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

—Saki

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

—Philip Roth