“There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.”

As quoted in Rati's personal diaries http://www.ratitsiteladze.com

Source: mitcet http://www.edpath.com/mitcet.htm

This is derived from the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." There are other variants which had inverted this including one known as Gehm's corollary http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/cyc/l/law.htm, published several years earlier : "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." The earliest variant seems to be "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." It has been called "Niven's Law" and attributed to Larry Niven by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case — the earliest occurrence yet located is an anonymous one in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Foundation's Fear (1997)

Anonymous saying, this is an inversion of the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It has been attributed to Niven, and even called "Niven's Law" by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Misattributed

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 394)

Source: Don't Eat This Book

[Eye for Film, Giving British films some Punch, http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature.php?id=545, Amber, Wilkinson, 18 July 2008, 23 February 2012, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk]

Profiles of the Future (revised edition, 1973)
On Clarke's Laws
Source: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

"Technology Is A More Powerful Social Force Than The Aspiration For Freedom", item 125
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)