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Arthur C. Clarke
Tuesday, 18 March 2008 10:58 pmI fell right to sleep early this evening, hence no comic, and I apologise. Dunno what woke me up. A shift in the sci fi continuum, perhaps.
Here are all three of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's laws, since only the third is commonly repeated. I particularly like the second:
* 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.
A little more hopeful than Sturgeon's Law.
Here are all three of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's laws, since only the third is commonly repeated. I particularly like the second:
* 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.
A little more hopeful than Sturgeon's Law.
