Everything Is Similar If You're Willing To

Computer Languages Of The Future Will Be More Concerned With Goals And Less With Procedures Specified By The Programmer.

Societies Need Rules That Make No Sense For Individuals. For Example, It Makes No Difference Whether A Single Car Drives On The Left Or On The Right. But It Makes All The Difference When There Are Many Cars!

It Makes No Sense To Seek A Single Best Way To Represent Knowledge-because Each Particular Form Of Expression Also Brings Its Particular Limitations. For Example, Logic-based Systems Are Very Precise, But They Make It Hard To Do Reasoning With Analogies. Similarly, Statistical Systems Are Useful For Making Predictions, But Do Not Serve Well To Represent The Reasons Why Those Predictions Are Sometimes Correct.

I Bet The Human Brain Is A Kludge

A Computer Is Like A Violin. You Can Imagine A Novice Trying first A Phonograph And Then A Violin. The Latter, He Says, Sounds Terrible. That Is The Argument We Have Heard From Our Humanists And Most Of Our Computer Scientists. Computer Programs Are Good, They Say, For Particular Purposes, But They Aren’t flexible. Neither Is A Violin, Or A Typewriter, Until You Learn How To Use It.