A Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. — © Arthur C. Clarke
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.
It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!
I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.
The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.
What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.
If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.
What is deemed "unlikeable" in Washington is actually standing up to Washington and saying no, saying "The emperor has no clothes," saying "We made promises to the people who elected us; let's do that."
I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life. Now, the real question is not are there other forms of life out there, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.
My friends, I tell you repeatedly that the illusion that Life creates is very, very intelligent. The illusion itself is intelligent! Just understand how intelligent the intelligence must be in order to create an intelligent illusion. The intelligent illusion is so intelligent it will appear real to man every moment of his daily life!
Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
People have been upset about the tenor and discord in Washington for a really long time.
You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is saying and you'll find out what 99% of 'em are thinking.
You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.
The boys have been running Washington for a long-ass time. We're talking 200-some-odd years.
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