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2010: Odyssey Two QUOTES

2010: Odyssey Two QUOTES

1 " After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

2 " Humor was the enemy of desire. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

3 " Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

4 " What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

5 " It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

6 " Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

7 " All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

8 " Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

9 " And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

10 " Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

11 " Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

12 " They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

13 " But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

14 " He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

15 " A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure—and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship’s cries for help, he would never get anything done. He "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

16 " This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

17 " The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

18 " They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence; "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

19 " In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: “Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two

20 " Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any external threat would reveal itself in due time and must be dealt with then. But he could not help wondering if they had done "

― Arthur C. Clarke , 2010: Odyssey Two