Any Sufficiently Advanced Quotes

#1. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

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#2. Number rules the universe.

Pythagoras

#3. All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

George Washington Carver

#4. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

David Langford

#5. Unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself.

Elizabeth Wein

#6. He should call it Oronzi's Law: Any sufficiently-advanced intelligence will be indistinguishable from insanity.

David Walton

#7. Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Gregory Benford

#8. It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

Gwen Moore

#9. Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself.

Caroline Paul

#11. A person fully in the Self is formless, birth less and deathless.
He is inside, outside and above everything that is known.
In purity he is absolute and in spirit he is eternal.

Gian Kumar

#12. A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Jane Austen

#13. It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

Nick Harkaway

#14. Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon.

Charles Stross

#15. Yeah and I'd love it. Our place?"
"Our place.

Alyse M. Gardner

#16. In the words of futurist Arthur C. Clarke, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Dan Brown

#17. Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

Erik Naggum

#18. Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long since assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (much to my boredom).

Hal Duncan

#19. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.

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