Perhaps it's just English's ambiguity, but the reverse (while also true) doesn't quite mean the same to me: "If you don't understand it, you can't program it."

Perhaps it's just English's ambiguity, but the reverse (while also true) doesn't quite mean the same to me: "If you don't understand it, you can't program it." You can create some kind of (stochastic) model that can create results you can try to interpret, but you might not know how those results are created or how to modify them. It's like old models for chemical properties - "increase the bin 53-ness of the structure to make them more active". Didn't sit well with the customers...