Sci Fi legend Arthur C. Clarke has crossed the abyss at 90 years old.

"We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins."
Arthur C. Clarke






My favorite science fiction writer of all time died today. His name is Arthur C. Clarke. The most famous of his work was "2001: A Space Odyssey" but he also wrote such classics as "Childhood's End", "Rendezvous with Rama", and "Imperial Earth". There isn't a whole lot I need to say, but thank you universe for his his great life. Thank you Sir. for providing me with unknown depths of imagination that catered to my artistic spirit as a teenager, and the winds of Rama that carry me to this day. Arthur C. Clarke is legend. He was one of the most intelligent, abstract, and individual thinkers of the 20th century. There wouldn't be science fiction without the man. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you and Kubrick as well. Thank you for "the romance of space".


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."

"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
Arthur C. Clarke

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."
Arthur C. Clarke

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."
Arthur C. Clarke

"We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation ... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began"

"They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge ... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command ... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young."

"Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."

RIP ARTHUR C. CLARKE