"Gordon’s great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the f

"Gordon’s great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the facts. The program’s task, which it was able to accomplish with consummate ease, was simply to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion." From the thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency