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Maybe the similarity between "Turing" and "tutoring" isn't just a coincidence in this book. The computer program Turing has much to impart:

But when you must argue about impossibility, you have to start by understanding the full range of possibilities-because how else can one prove impossibility? ... Tricky craft, impossibility. It imposes on your thinking an exacting discipline. To argue that you are outside a boundary, you must first cross it and map the interior.
And finding the pearl only positions you for the endgame, the part where you must see through the pearl. Something that's called causality, it has to do with time and its cruel irreversibility, except more subtle.
The price equilibrium theorem is so powerful and elegant, and it illuminates the nature of markets - the magic of the price mechanism - so amply, that one has to forgive the many oversimplifications and inaccuracies in its assumptions. You see, this is often the down side of clarity and elegance.
No universal compass will help in all dilemmas, no oracle will answer all your questions, no single trick will solve all puzzles for you. You have to navigate your own maze with your own private compass, employing at every step of the way everything that you've got.

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