You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.

-- Ronald Reagan

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Tuesday, March 18. 2008

Arthur C. Clark dies....

Arthur C. Clark, Scientist, Author, Visionary, died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

Rendezvous with Rama was the first "real" science fiction book I ever read. My mother had picked it up in an airport and I found it on a table. That was it, I was a science fiction fan from then on.

Later, I discovered Clarke's laws:

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.

The world lost a great light today.

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