Sounds Right to Me

Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005

From Jay Reding, developer of BloGTK:

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.


Sound Off, Loudmouth!

Sandy Smith says:
April 18, 2005 at 8:08 am

Azimov may have muttered something about regexes, but Clarke was talking about technology generally.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/776.html

Sandy Smith says:
April 19, 2005 at 9:47 am

No, the song goes, “Azimov, fuck yeah!”

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