very few scientists are also philosophers
some of the quotes everyone seems to marvel over are based on some half-baked ideas
Plato posited the existence of forms which were the fully realized versions of things that we grasp only dimly (like the Form of the Good)
We can't experience the forms directly so we just struggle on in the 'dark'

this does not mean that anything that does not measure up to the world of forms is bad although that is the general drift of the pithy remarks linked in this thread

I don't know about the computer science value of the work but its level of philosophical insight is low

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