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- From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Clarke's Laws
- Message-ID: <OLSON.92Dec26110154@husc8.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 16:01:54 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.220441.16939@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu><1992Dec21.231037.22046@wl.c
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- In-reply-to: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:52:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.095239.7367@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
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- >offordj@wl.com (Jim Offord) writes:
- >> --
- >> Dr. Jim Offord |Any sufficiently advanced technology
- >> Dept. of Biotechnology |is indistinguishable from magic.
- >> Parke-Davis | Arthur Clarke's Third Law
- >> offordj@wl.com |Opinions? Those babies are all mine.
- >
- >Who was it that came up with the following spin on Clarke's Third Law?
- >
- > Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable
- > from technology.
- >
- >I think it's either Niven or Pournelle....
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- I've also seen "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
- from a rigged demo."
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- --
- -Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
- "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
- Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -unknown
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