CPT869 : ARTHUR C. CLARKE Quotations : Rest In Peaceful Space!

"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."

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

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

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books."

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody."

"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."

"The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space."

"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."

CPT868 : STANLEY KUBRICK : His Letters to His People - including Arthur C. Clarke

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, 1968

The process of collaboration between Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke begins.
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March 31, 1964
"Dear Mr Clarke, It’s a very interesting coincidence that our mutual friend Caras mentioned you in a conversation we were having about a Questar telescope. I had been a great admirer of your books for quite a time and had always wanted to discuss with you the possibility of doing the proverbial really good science-fiction movie. My main interest lies along these broad areas naturally assuming great plot and character.

1. The reasons for believing in the existence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life.

2. The impact (and perhaps even lack on impact in some quarters) such discovery would have on earth in the near future.

3. A space probe with a landing and exploration of the Moon and Mars.

Would you consider coming sooner with a view to a meeting, the purpose of which would be to determine whether an idea might exist or arise which could sufficiently interest both of us enough to want to collaborate on a screenplay?”

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Click the title link above for the original article containing several letters to the likes of Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier and various producers & studio chiefs.

A Kubrick museum exhibition to display a lost cache of material as well as the motherload of boxes of material that Stanley packed into his home - like props from Full Metal Jacket to the Jack Torrance typed pages of his psychotic novel from The Shining and many other items and letters will be available to the public to see.
Click the link below to visit the full article and more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/13/sv_stanleykubrickprops.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

Telegraph.co.uk : Stanley Kubrick Props