(ref.doc)ACM-0800

Communications of the ACM
August 2000
Personalization

p 67 Deep Issues: Commonsense-Based Interfaces
by Marvin Minsky
  The secret of what X means to us lies in how our representations of X
  connects [sic] to the other things we know. [...]
  The trouble with computers today is they're always starting from scratch.
  [...]
  The most usual way to represent knowledge has been to first select a
  representation. And that's been the problem! Using any particular
  representation you'll soon to encounter some limitation or
  constraint, and these will quickly accumulate until your reasoning
  starts to fail.