In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Paul Wilkins wrote: >> From: "Tara Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> It should look like magic. What's that Arthur C. Clarke quote about >>> technology and magic? >> >> it's not rocket science that we're doing here, it's tougher - >>usability for the masses. >> >The Clark quote is "any sufficiently advanced technology is >indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) >Personally, I prefer the following, which I saw in someone's sig line >recently: "if it's distinguishable from magic, it isn't sufficiently >advanced." 'In the first non-Asimov Foundation Novel, the emperor declares, "If technology is distinguishable from magic, it is insufficiently advanced." This is a paraphrase of Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law, "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." ' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws> hQuote anyone? ;-) -- Andy Mabbett _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss