{"id":2405,"date":"2015-06-02T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2015-06-02T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T12:35:10","slug":"any-sufficiently-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/02\/any-sufficiently-advanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Any sufficiently advanced&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker has one of those cute quote things added to his email signature and today&#8217;s is &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.&#8221;.  That prompted me to Google and I found <a href=\"http:\/\/soquoted.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/any-sufficiently-advanced.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nArthur C. Clarke, (Clarke&#8217;s third law)<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Schryver<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Benford, Foundations Fear, 1997<br \/>\n    Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Music<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced music is indistinguishable from MIDI.<\/p>\n<p>Anon<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.<\/p>\n<p>Answer to Fermi&#8217;s Paradox<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from nature.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Rainey<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from humour.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the Huge Manatee<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from pretention.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Kulawiec<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. <\/p>\n<p>Carson Gaspar<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced application proxy is indistinguishable from any sufficiently advanced stateful inspection engine.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Finkel<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.<\/p>\n<p>Cairns&#8217;s Third Law<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from life.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Shermer<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is indistinguishable from God.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke&#8217;s Third Law as applied to music<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced country music is indistinguishable from rock.<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced rock music is indistinguishable from jazz<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced jazz is indistinguishable from random noise.<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced random noise is indistinguishable from Yanni.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Morgan (talk.origins)<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from a genuine kook.<\/p>\n<p>Throop&#8217;s Law:<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced tool can be used for something it wasn&#8217;t intended for.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced content management system<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced content management system is virtually indistinguishable from a good wiki.<\/p>\n<p>Linux<br \/>\n    Any sufficiently advanced operating system is indistinguishable from Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The Confusion, Neal Stephenson<br \/>\n    &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo&#8221;. Spoken by Enoch the Red\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker has one of those cute quote things added to his email signature and today&#8217;s is &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.&#8221;. That prompted me to Google and I found this: Arthur C. Clarke, (Clarke&#8217;s third law) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 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