Chapter 8. Software and Beyond

The search for truth must not be constrained for we cannot know where we will find it. This chapter takes us beyond the blueprint to look at the bigger picture.

“I did not then know what Brother William was seeking...and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion—which I could see he always harbored—that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.” (Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, 1980)[1]

[1] Excerpted from The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, copyright © 1980 by Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri-Bompiani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A. English translation by William Weaver, copyright © 1983 by Harcourt, Inc. and Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, ...

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