Arthur C. Clarke died last night.
I remember that my dad gave me Childhood's End to read when I was a kid - it was one of the first science fiction novels I read. Dad and I would have discussions about Clarke's outlook on what the future was like as opposed to other writers such as Asimov. Clarke was one of the authors who made me fall in love with golden age science fiction. His The Nine Billion Names of God is my all time favourite short story.
Clarke's Three Laws, published in Profiles of the Future (1962):
"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."
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