From: mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Distributed System Annex DSA
Date: 1996/09/24
Date: 1996-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528ut8$iac@wdl1.wdl.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: R.Dy3uCq.757@beaver.cs.washington.edu
In article <R.Dy3uCq.757@beaver.cs.washington.edu> drupp@cs.washington.edu (Douglas Rupp) writes:
>Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.
>Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
>>Any sufficiently advanced technologoy is indistinguishable from magic.
>>Who said that? ;-)"
>This sounds like the sci fi author E. E. "Doc" Smith.
This is Clarke's law after the SF author Arthur C. Clarke. It is usually
followed by two colloraries:
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
-- Gandalf's comment on Clarke's Law.
And Neither is distinguishable from a rigged demo.
-- the unknown hacker.
--
Mark Biggar
mab@wdl.lmco.com
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1996-09-21 0:00 [Q]: Distributed System Annex DSA Douglas Rupp
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar [this message]
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
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1996-09-21 0:00 Douglas Rupp
1996-09-09 0:00 Jonas Nygren
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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