A Single Central Vision vs. Many Apparent Unrelated Ends

Quote near the beginning of the online paper ...

"For there exists a great chasm between those, on the one side, who relate everything to a single central vision, one system more or less coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel–a single, universal, organizing principle in terms of which alone all that they are and say has significance–and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory, connected, if at all, only in some de facto way, for some psychological or physiological cause, related by no moral or esthetic principle."–Isaiah Berlin {The Hedgehog and the Fox}.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html

Marvin Minsky