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From: ins_ajsk@jhunix.UUCP (Jon Kay)
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Subject: Re: book info req.
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 13:33:30 EST
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> From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
> 
>                                    ...  These devices produce effects
> similar to magic.  A very good example of Lazarus Long's comment "A
> sufficiently high level of technology is indistinguishable from magic."
> (Or something like that.)

As Arthur C. Clarke always was one of my favorite authors, I feel mildly 
honor-bound to point out that the quotation attributed to Lazarus Long above 
was originally stated by Clarke as one of his three laws.  I cannot remember 
the other laws offhand.

                                            Jon Kay

"I'm sorry... I won't do it again, really I won't..."