From the article: >To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will

From the article: >To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. I guess it is reasonable that people have a hard time with this. They've grown up their whole lives dealing with people and animals and themselves. These act according to wants and gloss over minor errors, a fuzzy world full of fuzzy actors. Heck, even our species has lived and evolved mostly dealing with such. It doesn't make much sense to them that one typo could cause a super powerful computer or expensive device to keel over and be useless and do nothing.