Sublime

The boundary between knowledge and skill is subtle.

he had an unerring instinct for important (and difficult) problems.

It was built around two interrelated ideas that have been at the core of my whole intellectual activity: (1) human beings are able to achieve only a very bounded rationality, and (2) as one consequence of their cognitive limitations, they are prone to identify with subgoals.

we can often predict behavior from knowledge of the system’s goals and its outer environment, with only minimal assumptions about the inner environment.

What is striking about these documents is their practical sense and the awareness they exude of the limits of foresight about large human affairs.

Unified Theories of Cognition,

All mathematics exhibits in its conclusions only what is already implicit in its premises,

Social planning without fixed goals has much in common with the processes of biological evolution.

Again it was obvious which branch of the maze I should follow.