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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

341.0. "Quotable Quotes" by WIND::WAY (the Icefalcon) Tue Jun 10 1986 22:57

    I'm looking for an exact quote from Arthur C. Clarke.  The
    paraphrase I have is something like this:
    
    Any technology that is beyond a given society can only be viewed
    as magic.
    
    Can anyone help me out???
    
    Thanks, frank

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
341.1	Holy deja vu, Batman...	TLE::MOREAU	Ken Moreau	`Wed Jun 11 1986 02:06`	5
	"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." See also note 316.* -- Ken Moreau
341.2	A slight addition	SUPER::MARSH		`Tue Jun 17 1986 17:32`	10
	And don't forget Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a well rigged demo. Unknown FJM
341.3	And A Slight Expansion	INK::KALLIS		`Wed Jun 18 1986 10:34`	8
	Or my quote from an issue of _Analog_ a year or so ago: Arthur C. Clarke once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. But don't overlook the extremely remote possibility that it _is_ magic. Steve Kallis, Jr.