A remarkable man has passed. One can imagine HAL saying of him: “He put himself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”

Read about him here and here and here, but first enjoy Clarke’s three laws:

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.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 6:00 am and is filed under This 'n' That.