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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." Alfred North Whitehead
by kwhitefoot 5y ago
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Alfred North Whitehead
- asdff 5y agoI'm sure Alfred North Whitehead wasn't advocating stuff like not teaching the fundamentals of the why and how we can make these abstractions.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> I'm sure Alfred North Whitehead wasn't advocating stuff like not teaching the fundamentals of the why and how we can make these abstractions. I’m sure he wasn't advocating it so much as recognizing that it was inherently, inevitably, and universally a consequence of progress.