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Subject:Re: use of the word "invokes" From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- DEATH -dot- KALEIDA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Feb 1994 13:27:04 +0800
>From TECHWR-L -at- VM1 -dot- ucc -dot- okstate -dot- edu Wed Feb 2 13:16 PST 1994
>Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 11:30:41 -0800
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>From: Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM>
>Subject: Re: use of the word "invokes"
>Comments: To: TECHWR-L -at- VM1 -dot- ucc -dot- okstate -dot- edu
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>Sue Stewart said:
>> "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."
>> Would love to credit this, but I don't recall the distinguished author. sue
>Heinlein?
I've always heard it attributed to Arthur C Clarke. Or maybe thats the
one that goes:
"Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from a cleverly
rigged demo."
