Comments on: A literary and scientific giant dies http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: heikal http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342863 heikal Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:26:17 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342863 RIP Arthur C. Clarke RIP Arthur C. Clarke

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342862 mathewi Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:32:02 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342862 I know what you mean, Nav.<br><br><br>On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Disqus I know what you mean, Nav.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Disqus

]]> By: scrawledinwax http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342861 scrawledinwax Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:28:27 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342861 I remember feeling almost overwhelmed when I finished 2001 - it was as if my brain has been asked to consider things that were somehow beyond its reach.<br><br>But the Clarke moment that will always stick with me - and made a whooshing sound when I gestured toward it on Twitter - was the end of his short story "The Nine Billion Names of God". I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but it just seemed so perfectly understated that it's lingered somewhere in my mind ever since. I remember feeling almost overwhelmed when I finished 2001 - it was as if my brain has been asked to consider things that were somehow beyond its reach.

But the Clarke moment that will always stick with me - and made a whooshing sound when I gestured toward it on Twitter - was the end of his short story “The Nine Billion Names of God”. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but it just seemed so perfectly understated that it's lingered somewhere in my mind ever since.

]]> By: Tim Burden http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342860 Tim Burden Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:12:55 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/03/18/a-literary-and-scientific-giant-dies/#comment-342860 I'm reading it here first.<br><br>I have him twice in my Facebook quotes, and 2001 is listed as one of my favourite movies. He and Freeman Dyson and E.O. Wilson and Douglas Hofstadter kept my puny teenaged brain from shriveling up.<br><br>Once again, we will not see the Final Theorem. I'm reading it here first.

I have him twice in my Facebook quotes, and 2001 is listed as one of my favourite movies. He and Freeman Dyson and E.O. Wilson and Douglas Hofstadter kept my puny teenaged brain from shriveling up.

Once again, we will not see the Final Theorem.

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