InfinityLimited » quotes http://blog.infinitylimited.net Random bits of stuff I found the need to write down. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:40:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Advanced Technology and Magic http://blog.infinitylimited.net/2010/04/05/advanced-technology-and-magic http://blog.infinitylimited.net/2010/04/05/advanced-technology-and-magic#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:07:55 +0000 Jake http://blog.infinitylimited.net/2010/04/05/advanced-technology-and-magic While reading Monbiot’s latest, I came across the quote I have always wanted to know the origon of. Being Monbiot, the quote was referenced, so now I know that it was …

Arthur C Clarke who remarked that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

I tend to paraphrase this thus:

Any sufficienty complex software presentation is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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