Brings to mind a quote from Minsky on his preference for sloppy, corrective programming: "Don't try to fix the bug, just put in some code that notices when it'

Brings to mind a quote from Minsky on his preference for sloppy, corrective programming: "Don't try to fix the bug, just put in some code that notices when it's about to happen, and heads it off." (From Stewart Brand's The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT.)