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Monday, April 18, 2005

I believe that when Asimov postulated that a significantly advanced technology would look like magic, he was referring to regular expressions.

UPDATE: Sandy Smith correctly points out in the comments that the original quotation should be attributed to Arthur C. Clarke, not Isaac Asimov. So, yeah! Fuck you, Asimov.

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Azimov may have muttered something about regexes, but Clarke was talking about technology generally.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/776.html

-- Sandy Smith, April 18, 2005 8:08 AM

No, the song goes, "Azimov, fuck yeah!"

-- Sandy Smith, April 19, 2005 9:47 AM

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