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Frank Turner, the father of the interstate, took the bus to work most days and, as head of the Federal Highway Administration in the late 1960s, would open his meetings at bureau headquarters by asking: “How many of you came by bus today?”
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
To reproduce the work of the manager of a pencil factory, a planning algorithm would have to know not only about the supply and demand for each type of graphite used in pencil making, but also about the detailed implications of choosing one type of graphite over another in that particular production location, with its specific machines and workforce. It is possible that one could formalize all of this knowledge into explicit rules that a computer could execute. However, the difficulties involved in articulating such rules across all workplaces, in all sectors, are simply staggering.
How to Make a Pencil
logicmag.io
My dear sir, I am shocked only by that which offends me ethically.”
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
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