Arthur C. Clarke - In Memoriam

Arthur C. Clarke, author of more than 100 books, inventor, futurist and science fiction icon, died March 18 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was 90. He was probably best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. The New York Times has a long obituary.

These are Clarke's Three Laws, published in Profiles of the Future (1962):

"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."