+Computers can't cruise. Meandering is a foreign concept to them.

+The computer assumes that all behavior is in pursuit of an ultimate
+goal.  Whenever a motorist changes his or her mind and veers off
+course, the GPS lady issues that snippy announcement: "Recalculating!"
+               -- Joel Achenbach (www.slate.com, 20 jun 2008)
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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in
the world that just don't add up. the world that just don't add up.
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Computers can't cruise. Meandering is a foreign concept to them.
The computer assumes that all behavior is in pursuit of an ultimate
goal. Whenever a motorist changes his or her mind and veers off
course, the GPS lady issues that snippy announcement: "Recalculating!"
-- Joel Achenbach (www.slate.com, 20 jun 2008)
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Computers don't actually think. Computers don't actually think.
You just think they think. You just think they think.
(We think.) (We think.)