Arthur C. Clarke (RIP)

Arthur C. Clarke (RIP)

Together with Issac Asimov he was one of my favourite authors when I was growing up. One of the reason's I'm a little suspicious of "childrens fiction" is I read adult fiction from the age of about 11. Together with Robert Heinlein he and Asimov were THE big 3 Science Fiction authors. Asimov and Clarke are the people who set fire to my imagination.

Quotable Quotes

• "Life is just one big banana. Science fiction allows us all to peel open the reality and discover the yellow truth inside."

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."