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“[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”

Quote by Allen Newell

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Allen Newell was an American computer scientist born on March 19, 1927, and passed away on July 19, 1992. He made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in logic, cognitive science, and programming languages. more

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