Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools,
one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best.
-- Robert Machol
Related:
brute force adj.
Describes a primitive programming style
one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing
power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the
problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive
methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
How many
light bulbs
-- does it take to change a light bulb?
One, if it knows its own Goedel number.
Note: A Goedel Number is one of several ways to encode a
Turing Machine, the classical abstraction of a computer,
or for that matter of any algorithm....