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[<<Big Charlie>>]

All--
I am wanting to find out from who came this quote and the exact
wording thereof:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indintinguishable from
magic."

I remember it as Authur Clarke.

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<<Big Charlie>>

"The history of progress is a long, long list of specialists who were
dead wrong when they were the most certain." --SIASL

[John Paul Vrolyk]

> I am wanting to find out from who came this quote and the exact
> wording thereof:
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indintinguishable from
> magic."
>
> I remember it as Authur Clarke.

Yup, it's Clarke. That particular sentence is sometimes
known as "Clarke's Third Law". I don't have a source
for the very first time he used it. Your wording is
right, except for your spelling of "indistinguishable".

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John Paul Vrolyk j...@vrolyk.org http://www.vrolyk.org/jp/
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[Filksinger]

<> wrote in message <359286...@aol.com>...
>All--

> I am wanting to find out from who came this quote and the exact
>wording thereof:
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indintinguishable from
>magic."
>
> I remember it as Authur Clarke.
>

You are correct.

Clarke's First Law
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is
impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Corollary (Asimov):
When the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished
but elderly scientists, and supports that idea with great fervor and
emotion -- the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all,
right.

Clarke's Second Law
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them
into the impossible.

Clarke's Third Law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Filksinger

[Cecil Rose]

"<<Big Charlie>>" <chas...@aol.com> wrote:

>All--
> I am wanting to find out from who came this quote and the exact
>wording thereof:

> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indintinguishable from
>magic."

> I remember it as Authur Clarke.

"indistinguishable" and "Arthur", but otherwise correct. Also known
as Clarke's third law. There were others, including (ttbomr)

- Whenever a distinguished but elderly scientist declares that
anything is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

- Whenever a distinguished but elderly scientist declares that

something is possible, he is almost certainly right.

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