Sufficiently Advanced Quotes

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

David Langford

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

David Walton

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

Gregory Benford

#4. 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

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

Charles Stross

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

Dan Brown

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

Erik Naggum

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Douglas Adams

#10. I think part of our problem right now in the country is that people feel that nobody listens to them. And that means that they just don't trust anybody in government, anybody in politics, and anybody in the economy.

Hillary Clinton

#11. We are stuck in a generation where loyalty is just a tattoo, love is a quote and lying is the new truth.

Anonymous

#12. To live a normal life, you just have to believe nothing is normal.

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research on heart disease has really been based on men, and needs to be updated with research on women - even very early-stage research is done using male rats!

Laura Bush

#14. How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Let me be a most successful failure.

Vivek Thangaswamy

#16. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. What I'm trying to do is save your ass, gorgeous.

Massimo Carlotto

#18. Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

Alfred Billings Street

#19. Her heart leapt, which made no sense at all. This was not to be an affair of the heart. There would be affection certainly, but nothing more. Apparently her heart wasn't aware of her plans. Odd, she'd never known it to be rebellious before.

Victoria Alexander

#20. The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.

Joe Tye

#21. The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

DJ Shadow