In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miles Fidelman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Paul Wilkins wrote:
>> From: "Tara Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> It should look like magic. What's that Arthur C. Clarke quote about
>>> technology and magic?
>>
>> it's not rocket science that we're doing here, it's tougher -
>>usability for the masses.
>>
>The Clark quote is "any sufficiently advanced technology is
>indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
>Personally, I prefer the following, which I saw in someone's sig line
>recently: "if it's distinguishable from magic, it isn't sufficiently
>advanced."
'In the first non-Asimov Foundation Novel, the emperor declares,
"If technology is distinguishable from magic, it is
insufficiently advanced." This is a paraphrase of Gehm's
Corollary to Clarke's Third Law, "Any technology distinguishable
from magic is insufficiently advanced." '
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws>
hQuote anyone? ;-)
--
Andy Mabbett
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