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)
- 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.
- For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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