Arthur C Clarke has long since been my favourite author. In all of his works contains such huge ideas and vivid storytelling. As well as an author, he was also a keen scientist and even suggested the idea of geo-synchronous orbit satellites widely used in communications.
Similar to his fictional work his quotes were often filled with wisdom, humour and intelligence. Arthur C Clarke passed away on 19 March 2008. Here are some of my favourites:
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.