18-03-2008, 10:01 PM
Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90
By RAVI NESSMAN – 32 minutes ago
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfE8q...gD8VG4VI00
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1. 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.
2. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future (Clarke's first, second and third laws)
By RAVI NESSMAN – 32 minutes ago
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfE8q...gD8VG4VI00
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1. 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.
2. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future (Clarke's first, second and third laws)