It was Arthur C. Clark --
"Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic."
On 7/30/07, Jim <
arizona.anorak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've also read in several of Robert Heinlein's novels where one of the
> characters says magic is just knowledge I don't have yet. I believe I
> might have seen that a time or two in one of Spider Robinson's
> Callahan's Place stories.
>
> Alex Dean wrote:
> > Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> >> Wasn't it Carol Sagan who said any society that that is sufficiently
> >> technologically advanced comes to a point where their ceases to be a
> >> difference between sciences and magic.
> >
> > Carl Sagan? ;)
> >
> > I think it was Arthur C. Clarke.
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> --
>
>
> "That income tax you know it's nothing more than legal robbery"
> Sidney "Pa" Larkin
>
> The magic HD-DVD number is:
> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
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