Magic Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your…

— David Pogue

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

— Gregory Benford

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

— Anonymous

I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but…

— Charlie Jane Anders

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

— Gregory Benford

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be…

— Marco Tempest

What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I…

— Nevill Drury

Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world…

— Lev Grossman