RichardKennaway comments on Scientist vs. philosopher on conceptual analysis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 September 2011 01:41:22PM 0 points [-]

Possibly related is this:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Tim Bray, quoting Phil Karlton. This is as close to a definitive source as there is.