# Epigraph

LLMS index: [llms.txt](/en/llms.txt)

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> It is said that to explain is to explain away. This maxim is nowhere so well
> fulfilled as in the area of computer programming, especially in what is called
> heuristic programming and artificial intelligence. For in those realms machines
> are made to behave in wondrous ways, often sufficient to dazzle even the most
> experienced observer. But once a particular program is unmasked, once its inner
> workings are explained in language sufficiently plain to induce understanding,
> its magic crumbles away; it stands revealed as a mere collection of procedures,
> each quite comprehensible. The observer says to himself “I could have written
> that.” With that thought he moves the program in question from the shelf marked
> “intelligent,” to that reserved for curios, fit to be discussed only with people less
> enlightened than he.

> —JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM, MIT PROFESSOR AND INVENTOR OF THE FIRST CHATBOT, ELIZA, 1966

> “Successful people create companies. More successful people create
> countries. The most successful people create religions.”

> I heard this from Qi Lu; I’m not sure what the source is. It got me thinking,
> though--the most successful founders do not set out to create companies. They
> are on a mission to create something closer to a religion, and at some point it
> turns out that forming a company is the easiest way to do so.

> —SAM ALTMAN, 2013