>>>>>>>No matter how brilliant a man, s/he can't be a good president if s/he is not God fearing. I think Sarah Palin can be a good U.S. president...
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>>>>>>I think they need to believe in magic as well.
>>>>>you mean sufficiently advanced technology?
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>>>>Any sufficiently advanced civilization, no longer believes in magic.
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>>>That's a subjective statement and not necessarily true.
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>>I just threw that in because it's a clever quote I read in a sci-fi novel years ago. It's irked me for almost as long, that I can't remember the author. It might have been Paul Preuss, who was an occasional collaborator of Clarke's.
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>>As for its veracity - why do you think it might not be true?
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>OK, let's add Clarke to the mix:
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>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ...
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>:o)

Ah, but that was exactly the point of Preuss's Rejoinder (if indeed it was his).