This isn't quite in keeping with the focus of this blog but a very important writer, inventor and futurist from my early years died this week. Arthur Clarke wrote many of the great science fiction stories that I read and reread during my teenage years including Child Hood's End, Against the Fall of Night/City and the Stars, Rendezvous with Rama and the Sentinal/2001 A Space Odessy (and the remaining Odessy books and movies).
From the NYTimes Article referenced in the title - several of my favorite "Clarke Quotes".
¶“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.”
¶“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
¶“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/books/18cnd-clarke.html?pagewanted=1&hp
No comments:
Post a Comment