Any sufficiently advanced ...
Arthur C. Clarke, (Clarke's third law)
Vernon Schryver
Gregory Benford, Foundations Fear, 1997
Advanced Music
Anon
answer to Fermi's Paradox
scott rainey
Oh, the Huge Manatee
Rich Kulawiec
Carson Gaspar
Andy Finkel
Cairns's Third Law
Michael Shermer
Alan Morgan (talk.origins)
Throop's Law:
advanced content management system
Linux
The Confusion, Neal Stephenson
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
posted by bill at 12:28 PM
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Okay, I've been trying to trace an attribution - where did you get that it's Greg?
These have been breeding significantly on slashdot...
$RANDOMLUSER
any sufficiently advanced sarcasm is indistinguishable from offtopic
whyde(?)
Any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Clarke's Third Law: prov. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Any sufficiently reliable magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Any sufficiently nice person is indistinguishable from someone who likes you.
Any sufficiently advanced communication technology is indistinguishable from random noise.
--Richard Factor's Corrolary to Clarke's Third Law.
anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality.
Anonymous Brave Guy
Any sufficiently advanced undocumented feature is indistinguishable from a bug. :-)
Any sufficiently advanced advancement is indistinguishable from an alternate dimension where that advancement did not happen.
The causes of the behaviour of any sufficiently complex system are insufficiently explained by everything else but chance.
Lowe's Law - Any sufficiently advanced data format is indistinguishable from code.
Lovecraft's corollary: any sufficiently advanced technology will drive you totally insane.
any sufficiently advanced "sufficiently advanced" joke is indistinguishable from utter lameness
--Sam
Any sufficiently tendentious attempt to imitate Clarke's Third Law is not only indistinguishable from falsehood, it is self-refuting. And that applies to about 50% of the comments here.
Put another way: any sufficiently disgruntled comment like that is indistinguishable from a raspberry.
Interesting list all the same, and thanks for providing the source of the "indistinguishable from malice" one.
I heard a “Any sufficiently advanced demo is indistinguishable from product”
anyone have an attribution?
This one I came up with: Any thinking, sufficiently advanced, will appear to be madness.
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