"Codes act in this way to bring order
to the world and our lives. They help develop a more predictable outcome. If you want a code to behave differently, you just have to
change it. Change the language of it, and the outcome will be different.
"Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important." — Vannevar Bush in As We May Think
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