"Legendary British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.He came to fame when his story was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, by director Stanley Kubrick in 1968."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm
"His three laws, especially the third, are often quoted today in a variety of circumstances:
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."
http://www.arcanology.com/2008/03/18/arthur-c-clarke-is-dead/
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