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IBM Pollyanna Principle
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English
Pollyanna principle
Etymology
From en Pollyanna principle, and in reference to the technology company en IBM.
Proper noun
IBM Pollyanna Principle 1
The axiom that "machines should work; people should think".
e.g. machines should do all the hard work, freeing people to think (hence the reference to Pollyanna)
e.g. most of the world's major problems result from machines that fail to work, and people who fail to think.
References
Price Stern Sloan Murphy's Law and other reasons why things go wrong 1977 Bloch Arthur w:Arthur Bloch 0843104287 41
en Computing IBM