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  3. From: mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk)
  4. Subject: Re: Clarke's Laws
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec28.115138.16236@sei.cmu.edu>
  6. Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
  7. Organization: Software Engineering Institute
  8. References: <1992Dec21.220441.16939@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <1992Dec21.231037.22046@wl.com> <1992Dec23.171854.8076@walter.bellcore.com>
  9. Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:51:38 EST
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  13. Clarke's laws of scientific prediction.
  14.     1 ) To find the limits of the possible one must go a little way beyond
  15. into the impossible.
  16.     2 ) When an elderly and distinguished scientist says that something is
  17. possible he is almost certainly correct; when he says something is
  18. impossible he is almost certainly wrong.
  19.     3 ) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
  20. magic.
  21.  
  22. Mark C. Paulk
  23. Software Engineering Institute
  24. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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