Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Clark: Since this is Aunt Bethany's 80th Christmas, I think she should lead us in the saying of Grace. Aunt Bethany: [turns to Lewis] What, dear? Nora Griswold: Grace! Aunt Bethany: Grace? She passed away thirty years ago. Uncle Lewis: They want you ...
Eddie: Don't go puttin' none of that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at...
Hilly Holbrook: Maybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief. Aibileen Clark: I know something about you. Don't you forget that. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plent...
Joan Clarke: No one normal could have done that. Do you know, this morning... I was on a train that went through a city that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you. I bought a ticket from a man who would likely be dead if it wasn't for you. I read up on...
Karen Clarke: Yes, Assistant Secretary, on point six, it feels like there's already been an assumption that we're invading and don't you think that we should discuss the practical implications? I mean, this is, after all, the War Committee. Linton Ba...
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
I prefer to be left alone with my books.
There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.
In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.
