yetihehe
8 hours ago
From Catb Jargon file, "Some AI Koans"
> A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
> Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
> Knight turned the machine off and on.
> The machine worked.