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Old 07-19-2009, 10:09   #15
HowardCohodas
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Arthur C. Clark's Laws of Prediction

Whenever I get frustrated by the experts talking past each other on a subject I am trying to understand, I try to recall the following to bring back some perspective. It brings a smile to my face so that I can again tackle serious matters.

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Originally Posted by Arthur C. Clark (author of 2001)
  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.
  4. For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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