Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:
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It doesn't mean nothing; it means that people (like machines) can be taught to do things without understanding them.
(They can also be taught to understand, provided you reduce understanding to Turing-machine computations, which is harder. "Understanding that 1+1 = 2" is not the same thing as being able to output "2" to the query "1+1=".)