A co-worker has one of those cute quote things added to his email signature and today’s is “Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”. That prompted me to Google and I found this:
Arthur C. Clarke, (Clarke’s third law)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Vernon Schryver
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.Gregory Benford, Foundations Fear, 1997
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.Advanced Music
Any sufficiently advanced music is indistinguishable from MIDI.Anon
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.Answer to Fermi’s Paradox
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from nature.Scott Rainey
Any sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from humour.Oh, the Huge Manatee
Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from pretention.Rich Kulawiec
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.Carson Gaspar
Any sufficiently advanced application proxy is indistinguishable from any sufficiently advanced stateful inspection engine.Andy Finkel
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.Cairns’s Third Law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from life.Michael Shermer
Any sufficiently advanced Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is indistinguishable from God.Clarke’s Third Law as applied to music
Any sufficiently advanced country music is indistinguishable from rock.
Any sufficiently advanced rock music is indistinguishable from jazz
Any sufficiently advanced jazz is indistinguishable from random noise.
Any sufficiently advanced random noise is indistinguishable from Yanni.Alan Morgan (talk.origins)
Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from a genuine kook.Throop’s Law:
Any sufficiently advanced tool can be used for something it wasn’t intended for.Advanced content management system
Any sufficiently advanced content management system is virtually indistinguishable from a good wiki.Linux
Any sufficiently advanced operating system is indistinguishable from Linux.The Confusion, Neal Stephenson
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo”. Spoken by Enoch the Red
