The Arthur C. Clarke Quote

[Urban Ranger]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Murgatroyd on 10-01-2000 05:07 PM</font>
UR: So you prefer Clarke's Third Law to his First. Does anyone remember the Second?
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I remember that the Brits were going to knight the old gent, but then rumors started to surface about his sexual preferences, and the Brits sort of put a hold on the knighting. Them Brits are just conservatives at heart. <-- In the general direction of the UK

Not that I remember his Second Law...
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[MarkG]

the Second Law is(I translate to English from the Greek translation )
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</font>The only way to discover the limits of what is possible, is to risk a little bit inside the impossibe
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[Locutus]

Mao,

You of all people should have noticed it!

Markos,

Not a poor translation, here's the original:

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</font>"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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BTW, anyone knows what Clark's 69th law is? That's my personal favourite
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[Gary]

"the Brits sort of put a hold on the knighting"

IIRC the media said that Arthur asked for the postponement himself, to avoid embarassment, until he could clear his name. (But that might have just been media speculation).

[Murgatroyd]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Locutus on 10-02-2000 07:04 AM</font>
BTW, anyone knows what Clark's 69th law is? That's my personal favourite

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'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.'

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[Urban Ranger]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Murgatroyd on 10-02-2000 05:36 PM</font>
'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.'
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That's quite old I'm afraid. Now we don't need to read hardware manuals, it's the software that's the bugger

[Locutus]

Well, there are still people out there who like messing around with hardware (like me) and most software you don't need manuals for these days. With all those annoying wizards and paperclips (where's that puke-smilie when you need it ) and stuff like that, even my parents can learn to work with it

But even with regard to software I recognize the feeling

[Murgatroyd]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Urban Ranger on 10-03-2000 03:02 AM</font>
That's quite old I'm afraid. Now we don't need to read hardware manuals, it's the software that's the bugger

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Not only that, but it's nearly impossible to find manuals for hardware or software these days.

I hate online documentation.

Murgatroyd

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[Locutus]

Murgatroyd,

You have a point there.


How the hell did this thread go from a typo in one of the quotes to the availability of hard/software manuals?

[Urban Ranger]

All hail the thread drift god