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Hrvoje Simic
Banned
One of the greatest visionaries of modern times has left us at the age of 90.
RAF radar specialist from the 2. WW, underwater explorer, explorer of world mysteries and paranormal, inventor, chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, British knight...the man who wanted to be remembered as a science fiction author...
....a man who predicted satelite communications, plasma TV’s...a man who wrote “Mysterious world” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”.....
Some quotes:
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Clarks three laws of prediction:
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.
Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas:
Every revolutionary idea — in science, politics, art, or whatever — seems to evoke three stages of reaction.
They may be summed up by the phrases:
1. "It's completely impossible — don't waste my time";
2. "It's possible, but it's not worth doing";
3. "I said it was a good idea all along."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Arthur_C._Clarke/
He wanted for his toombstone to say:
"Here lies a man who never grew up but never stopped growing up"
His wish was to be remebered as a man who tingled people’s imagination.
Here's to you, dear visionary.
You certainly tingled mine.
RAF radar specialist from the 2. WW, underwater explorer, explorer of world mysteries and paranormal, inventor, chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, British knight...the man who wanted to be remembered as a science fiction author...
....a man who predicted satelite communications, plasma TV’s...a man who wrote “Mysterious world” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”.....
Some quotes:
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Clarks three laws of prediction:
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.
Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas:
Every revolutionary idea — in science, politics, art, or whatever — seems to evoke three stages of reaction.
They may be summed up by the phrases:
1. "It's completely impossible — don't waste my time";
2. "It's possible, but it's not worth doing";
3. "I said it was a good idea all along."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Arthur_C._Clarke/
He wanted for his toombstone to say:
"Here lies a man who never grew up but never stopped growing up"
His wish was to be remebered as a man who tingled people’s imagination.
Here's to you, dear visionary.
You certainly tingled mine.
