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Here again, it is when something goes wrong -- such as his baggage not arriving -- that the passenger is made aware of the confusing system of levels underneath him. p.296

何か問題が起こるまで、自分がどのような時代、環境、状況に支配、囲まれていたか気づかない。何か問題が起こるまで

Although my friends' naivete might seem rather extreme, even experienced computer people often make similar errors when several levels of a complex system are all present at once on the same screen. They forget "who" they are talking to, and type something which makes no sense at that level, although it would have made perfect sense on another level. p.301

女と友達として会話するか、女性として会話するか。

we cannot make any choices about the hardware -- and yet, we can control how we think. p.302

In short, in using chunked high-level models, we sacrifice determinism for simplicity. p.306

It is not built into the roles, but it is a consequence of the roules. p.308

Epiphenomena これが一番気に行った。