"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ― Arthur C. Clarke Topic(s): Technology More From Arthur C. Clarke "This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." "New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!" "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." More In Technology "I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology."― Francesca Annis "And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn’t actually have to do my engineer – I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not."― Ginni Rometty "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."― Ludwig Wittgenstein