Experience Has Shown That Science Frequently Develops

In Science, One Learns The Most By Studying What Seems To Be The Least.

In General, We’re Least Aware Of What Our Minds Do Best.

Anyone Could Learn Lisp In One Day, Except That If They Already Knew Fortran, It Would Take Three Days.

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.

The Secret Of What Anything Means To Us Depends On How We've Connected It To All The Other Things We Know. That's Why It's Almost Always Wrong To Seek The "real Meaning" Of Anything. A Thing With Just One Meaning Has Scarcely Any Meaning At All.