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Subject:Magick From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Feb 1994 13:56:31 CST
Sue Stewart writes:
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|} "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."
|} Would love to credit this, but I don't recall the distinguished author.
That would be Clarke's Third Law...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clark
Followed by Dr. Barry Gehms Corrolary to Clarke's Third Law:
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
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