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Subject: [OM] Re: Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90 [was OT - How is this done ?]
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:18:59 -0400
Damn! "Against the Fall of Night" was and is one of the most  
memorable science-fiction novels I ever read.



On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:07 AM, Moose wrote:
> Michael Collins wrote:
>> On 3/15/08 7:26 PM, "Doug" <doug9345@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't remember who said it, but any science that is  
>>> sufficiently advanced is
>>> indistinguishable from magic.
>>>
>> Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law [1973]: "Any sufficiently advanced  
>> technology
>> is indistinguishable from magic."
>>
>> He also said, "As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have  
>> modestly
>> decided to stop there." In 1999, he added his Fourth Law: " For  
>> every expert
>> there is an equal and opposite expert."
>>
> Apparently being quoted on this list was finally too much for the old
> man. He leaves me with some happy memories of time spent reading  
> his words.
>
> Moose

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