Jason Lefkowitz's forlorn hope
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.
Jason A. Lefkowitz is a programmer and writer. For his sins, he lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is his "blog." (Kids, ask your parents.)
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Comments
Sandy Smith
April 18, 2005
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
April 19, 2005
9:47 am
No, the song goes, “Azimov, fuck yeah!”