Wednesday, March 19, 2008

R.I.P., Arthur C. Clarke

Clarke passed away today in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

His three laws of prediction, as stated on Wikipedia:
  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 of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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