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Clarke's three laws
by Sir Arthur C. Clarke
(* December 16, 1917 in Minehead, Somerset, England;
† March 19, 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka)
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1. "If 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.”
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2. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
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3. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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“As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there,” Clarke concluded.