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From: mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Distributed System Annex DSA
Date: 1996/09/24
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references: <R.Dy3uCq.757@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
organization: Lockheed Martin Western Development Labs
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Date: 1996-09-24T00:00:00+00:00
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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