http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/bo...nd-clarke.html

don't be sad. the man was a paedophile!

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And 90 years old. He was gonna croak sometime soon.

Also dead today: the director of The English Patient and the guy who played Captain Birdseye.


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. RIP