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		Clarke's three laws (wikipedia.org)
		9 points by baran on May 4, 2010 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 4 comments

georgecmu on May 4, 2010 | [–]

Dead link, use this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkes_Three_Laws

baran on May 4, 2010 | | [–]

Whoops

theli0nheart on May 4, 2010 | [–]

My favorite is the third, because it's true:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

mkramlich on May 4, 2010 | [–]

IIRC someone proposed a tongue-in-cheek corollary along the lines of:

"Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced!"

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