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John Von Neumann Draws Attention To What Seemed To Him A Contrast. He Remarked That For Simple Mechanisms, It Is Often Easier To Describe How They Work Than What They Do, While For More Complicated Mechanisms, It Is Usually The Other Way Around.

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Industry Suffers From The Managerial Dogma That For The Sake Of Stability And Continuity, The Company Should Be Independent Of The Competence Of Individual Employees.

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